Andrew Jackson: “New markets are opening for our commodities and a more extensive range for the employment of our ships.”

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.

The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.

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