Andrew Jackson: “I avail myself of this early opportunity to return to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled 'An act…”

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.

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.

The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.