For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person. Zachary Taylor Read Quote
