| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30317 |
| QUOTATION: | Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), U.S. president. Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana, 1813-1815É, pp. cxvi-cxvii, Major Arsene Lacarriere Latour (1816).
Jackson’s address to the officers of the city battalion defending New Orleans against British invaders in 1815. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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