Andrew Jackson: “Our course is a safe one if it be but faithfully adhered to.”

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.

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

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