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Zachary Taylor Quotes: I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
         

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

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



I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.



Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!



My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.



I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.



In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.



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.

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.



I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.



Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.





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