On the recordMarch 3, 1837
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.
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presidency.ucsb.eduAndrew Jackson: “It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst…”
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