June 23 Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson, 7th President, 1829-1837-Quoted as "a maxim of Gen. Jackson's" in Supplement to the Courant Vol. XXII No. 25, Hartford, Saturday, December 12, 1857, p. 200 books.google, from Wikiquotes.org. This appears to be a quote attributed to Jackson but not much substantial evidence has been found that he actually said it or wrote it. The quote has also been attributed to Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821), the famous French general and Emperor who also rose to power in Jackson's era. Both men were great military leaders and fearless generals. Napolean rose to power after the French Revolution where the French monarchy was overthrown in 1789, the first year of George Washington's Presidency. Jackson was only a young teenager during the American Revolution and rose to prominence as controversial Indian fighter and as a general in the War of 1812 against the British. As a point of interest, the source of this quote, The Hartford Courant, is the United State's oldest newspaper in continous print. "It's the newspaper in which George Washington placed an ad to lease part of his Mount Vernon land. It's where Noah Webster's "Blue-Backed Speller" was first published. Thomas Jefferson sued this newspaper for libel - and lost. And Mark Twain tried to buy stock in this paper but his offer was turned down. The Courant is, in fact, older than the nation. It was started as a weekly paper in 1764 by a printer named Thomas Green. He sold the newspaper to his assistant, Ebenezer Watson, who ran the business successfully until he died of smallpox in 1777. Then Watson's widow, Hannah, took over the paper and became one of the first women publishers in America. During the Revolutionary War, The Courant had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the colonies and was an influential backer of the rebel cause. The Courant's existence was considered so important to the war effort that when its paper mill was burned down - probably by Tories - the Connecticut legislature authorized a lottery to raise money to build a new mill. In the meantime, The Courant printed a few issues on wrapping paper. In the mid-1800's, when the country was dividing over the issue of slavery, The Courant was inspired by a visit Abraham Lincoln made to Hartford. The paper became a leading supporter of the new Republican Party and Lincoln's presidential campaign. When Lincoln won the 1860 election, The Courant's headline pronounced: "VICTORY, VICTORY, WE'VE GOT'EM." http://www.courant.com/about/thc-history,0,4107859.htmlstory