Andrew Jackson actually said...

It is now, however, my solemn conviction that I ought no longer, from any motive nor in any degree, to yield to these unconstitutional deman...

Such a result, if acquiesced in, would ultimately subject the independent constitutional action of the Executive in a matter of great nation...

On no principle known to our institutions can he be required to account for the manner in which he discharges this portion of his public dut...

Their continued repetition imposes on me, as the representative and trustee of the American people, the painful but imperious duty of resist...