Andrew Jackson: “Our fellow citizens, too, who in proportion to their love of liberty keep a steady eye upon the means of sustaining it…”

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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

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.