Andrew Jackson: “Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives”

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.

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

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

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.