As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, Laura-Eve Moss (2007). “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1829”, p.79, Univ. of Tennessee Press
