Andrew Jackson: “In compliance with the resolution of the Senate at its last session, requesting the President to cause to be prepared…”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.