Zachary Taylor Quotes

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

I'm more interested in policy than politics, and I can do that as an independent person.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

I was not elected to serve one party.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers ... If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

To change masters is not to be free.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.