Andrew Jackson: “At every hazard and by every sacrifice this Union must be preserved.”

There is too much at stake to allow pride or passion to influence your decision.

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

In your hands is rightfully placed the sovereignty of the country.

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.