Andrew Jackson: “I transmit herewith to the House a report from the Secretary of State, containing the instructions and other papers…”

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.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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

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