evidence: FACT CHECK: Did Andrew Jackson Say, ‘One Man With Courage Makes A Majority’? A Facebook post alleges that former President Andrew Jackson once said, "One man with courage makes a majority." [...] The misattribution likely stems from usage of a slight variation of the quote in James Parton’s 1860 three-volume biography titled "Life of Andrew Jackson," according to Feller. The saying – "desperate courage makes one a majority" – appears on the title page of each volume in quotation marks.