Andrew Jackson: “To the Senate of the United States: I transmit communications from the War Department relating to the treaty with the…”

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

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

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

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.