Andrew Jackson: “So far, therefore, as the people can with convenience speak, it is safer for them to express their own will.”

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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.

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

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