Andrew Jackson Quote

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.


Said to Martin Van Buren (8 July 1832) and quoted in The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren, published in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918, vol. II (1920), ed. John Clement Fitzpatrick, ch. XLIII (p. 625)


The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.