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 against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have to especially guard yourselves from.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care.
Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve for the benefit of the human race.
May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands, and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the charge He has committed to your keeping.
—President Andrew Jackson in his farewell address
—that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have to especially guard yourselves from.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care.
Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve for the benefit of the human race.
May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands, and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the charge He has committed to your keeping.
—President Andrew Jackson in his farewell address
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