Andrew Jackson: “The acknowledgment of a new state as independent and entitled to a place in the family of nations is at all times an act…”

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

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

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.

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.