Andrew Jackson: “The interests of the nation would doubtless be better served by avoiding all such indirect modes of aiding particular…”

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

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

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.