Andrew Jackson: “In every element of national resources and wealth and of individual comfort we witness the most rapid and solid…”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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

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

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.