Andrew Jackson: “Neither our situation nor our institutions require or permit the maintenance of a large regular force.”

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

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

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.