Andrew Jackson: “Through its agency we have secured to ourselves the full enjoyment of the blessings of a free press.”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.

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.

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