Andrew Jackson: “After the extinction of the public debt it is not probable that any adjustment of the tariff upon principles…”

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

At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.

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.