Andrew Jackson: “Wherever this spirit has effected an alliance with political power, tyranny and despotism have been the fruit.”

It is impossible that any government can continue to exist upon any other principles.

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

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

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.