With these improvements, and such others as zealous watchfulness and mature consideration may suggest, there can be little doubt that under an energetic administration of its affairs the Navy may soon be made every thing that the nation wishes it to be.
Jackson emphasizes the potential of the Navy under strong leadership to meet national expectations.
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If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
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.
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