Andrew Jackson: “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.

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

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