Carolina QuotesIt 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.
Andrew Jackson
Carolinian
Source
Farewell Address, Washington, 4 March 1837; Miller Center, University of Virginia
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- Farewell Address
- year
- 1837
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