Andrew Jackson: “I beg leave to call the attention of Congress to the accompanying report from the Navy Department.”

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.

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.

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