All will agree that the services and sufferings of the remnant of our Revolutionary band should be fully compensated; but while this is done, every proper precaution should be taken to prevent the admission of fabricated and fraudulent claims.
Jackson stresses the importance of compensating Revolutionary War veterans while preventing fraudulent claims.
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The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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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