Andrew Jackson: “I appointed Mr. Edmund Roberts a special agent of this Government for the purpose of visiting those seas and concluding…”

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.

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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