Andrew Jackson: “I transmit also the journal of proceedings.”

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

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

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

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.