Andrew Jackson: “If it fail here, all hope in regard to it will be extinguished.”

The foundations must be laid in the affections of the people.

Local interests would still be found there, and unchastened ambition.

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.