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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.

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