Andrew Jackson: “I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it…”

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.