Andrew Jackson: “She ought to look upon it as the evidence only of an inflexible determination on the part of the United States to insist…”

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.

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

Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility.