Andrew Jackson: “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.

The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

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