Andrew Jackson actually said...

"They exhibit the price that great States which had won liberty were willing to pay for that union without which they plainly saw it could not be preserved."

"I am fully sensible of the importance, as it respects both the harmony and union of the States, of making, as soon as circumstances will allow of it, a proper and final disposition of the whole subjec..."

"I felt myself, therefore, constrained to withhold from it my approval, and now return it to the Senate, in which it originated, with the reasons on which my dissent is founded."

"These ancient compacts are invaluable monuments of an age of virtue, patriotism, and disinterestedness."