In all disputes between conflictIng governments it is our Interest not less than our duty to remaIn strictly neutral.. — Zachary Taylor

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

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield. — Zachary Taylor

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

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command. — Zachary Taylor

I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides. — Zachary Taylor

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

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor

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

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

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. — Zachary Taylor

Never judge a stranger by his clothes. — Zachary Taylor

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party–I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. — Zachary Taylor

I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office. — Zachary Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Zachary Taylor

Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. — Zachary Taylor

I congratulate you, my fellow–citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. — Zachary Taylor

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was. — Zachary Taylor

In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes. — Zachary Taylor