Andrew Jackson: “Independent farmers are every where the basis of society and true friends of liberty.”

The paper money system of this country may be used as an engine to undermine your free institutions.

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.

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