Andrew Jackson was noted for his swift action and swifter defense of his honor, not his speeches, but I like this one that I read on lunch today. I have also found and included a link to the full text of the speech, and a detailed site on Jackson, for anyone interested.

"Citizens! Your government has at last yielded to the impulse of the nation. Your impatience is no longer restrained. The hour of national vengeance is now at hand. The eternal enemies of American prosperity are again to be taught to respect your rights, after having been compelled to feel, once more, the power of your arms. War is on the point of breaking out between the United States and the King of Great Britain! and the martial host of America are summoned to the Tented Fields!...

"A simple invitation is given to the young men of the country to arm for their own and their countries rights. On this invitation 50,000 volunteers, full of martial ardor, indignant at their countries wrongs and burning with impatience to illustrate their names by some signal exploit, are expected to repair to the national standard.

"Could it be otherwise? Could the general government deemit necessary to force us to take the field? We, who for so many years have demanded a war with such clamourous importunity - who, in so many resolutions of town meetings and legislative assemblies, have offered our lives and fortunes for the defense of our country - who, so often and so publickly, have charged this very government with a pusillanimous deference to foreign nations, because she had resolved to exhaust the arts of negotiation before she made her last appeal to the power of arms. Under such circumstances it was impossible for the government to conceive that compulsion would be wanting to bring us into the field...