Andrew Jackson: “I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election…”

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.

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

If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.

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