« All National Honor Quotes
·
Zachary Taylor's Page
National Honor Quotes by Zachary Taylor
1 National Honor quote by Zachary Taylor
More Quotes by Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in…
-
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
-
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed…
-
The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my…
-
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
-
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted…
-
I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.
-
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national…
-
I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.
-
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!
-
The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion…
-
I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
See all 18 quotes by Zachary Taylor »
More National Honor Quotes
Popular National Honor quotes from across the collection:
-
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
-
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in…
— Jefferson Davis
-
My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national…
— Zachary Taylor
-
We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.
— John McCain
-
We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
— Indira Gandhi
-
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which…
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating…
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
-
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation…
— Thomas Paine
-
National honor is national property of the highest value.
— James Monroe
-
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
— Alfred Adler
-
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
See all National Honor Quotes »
Browse Zachary Taylor Quotes by Category