Andrew Jackson: “To follow to the tomb the last of his race and to tread on the graves of extinct nations excite melancholy reflections.”

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

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.

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.