Andrew Jackson: “It is my conviction that the United States ought to insist on a prompt execution of the treaty, and in case it be…”

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

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.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.