Veto Message
03/02/1837
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The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factio...
The victory of the injured would not secure to them the blessings of liberty.
There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.