Zachary Taylor Quotes




Being President

"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



"I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to
build up, no enemies to punish—nothing to serve but my country."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidentsday/servicequotes.html

". . . I can and shall yield to no call that does not come from the
spontaneous action and free will of the nation at large and void of
the slightest agency of my own . . . In no case can I permit myself
to be a candidate of any part, or yield myself to any party
schemes."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/ZT/ZT_In_His_Own_W
ords.htm


Constitution

"In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which
I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend."
Zachary TaylorSource:http://www.quotesforall.com/t/taylorzachary.htm




Foe

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/zachary_taylor_a001.htm


Jefferson Davis

"I will be damned if another daughter of mine shall marry into the
Army. I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know
my own children or they me. I have no personal objections to
Lieutenant [Jefferson] Davis."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/ZT/ZT_In_His_Own_W
ords.htm




Last Words

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. 
My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. 
Zachary Taylor


Patriots

"For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires
have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed
it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the
proudest monument to their memory...."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/zacharytaylor/a/quotetaylor.htm




Santa Anna

"Tell him to go to hell." (His reply to Mexican General Santa Anna's
demand for surrender)"
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/ZT/ZT_In_His_Own_W
ords.htm


United States

"Upon its preservation [the United States] must depend our own
happiness and that of countless generations to come. Whatever
dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its
integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the
power conferred upon me by the Constitution." (1849)
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/ZT/ZT_In_His_Own_W
ords.htm

"In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high
state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has
conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the
same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the
eminence we this day occupy"
Zachary Taylor
Source:Inaugural Address, March 5, 1849


Veto

"The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose
his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should
never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the
Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by
Congress."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/zacharytaylor/a/quotetaylor.htm


Whig

"I am a Whig, but not an ultra-Whig."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.trivia-library.com/a/12th-us-president-zachary-
taylor.htm


Will

"I wish my plantation and servants kept together for ten years, and
after paying the several legacies referred to, the net proceeds of
my crops to be equally divided between my two daughters . . . I wish
the servants only moderately worked and kindly treated, and the old 
ones taken care of and made comfortable, which I hope my children 
have attended to. . . . I give my daughter Mary Elizabeth, . . . the
servant woman Mary, a slave for life, . . . and her four children,
forever, to dispose of as she may think proper."
Zachary Taylor
Source:http://www.historywise.com/KoTrain/Courses/ZT/ZT_In_His_Own_W
ords.htm

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