Were the Federal Government to exempt in express terms the imports, products, and manufactures of some portions of the country from all duties while it imposed heavy ones on others, the injustice could not be greater.
Jackson argues against unequal taxation and its injustices in his State of the Union address.
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There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.
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.
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