Andrew Jackson: “I think it my duty to acquiesce therein, and therefore I nominate Alcée La Branche, of Louisiana, to be chargé…”

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.

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

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.