I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

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• Zachary Taylor:

  As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so w

• Zachary Taylor:

  The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Rep

• Zachary Taylor:

  If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of p

• Zachary Taylor:

  Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

• Zachary Taylor:

  My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

• Zachary Taylor:

  For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the bat

• Zachary Taylor:

  I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I

• Zachary Taylor:

  Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man

• Zachary Taylor:

  The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It h

• Zachary Taylor:

  My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position