The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
Interpretation
The president bears significant responsibility in appointing officials and should ensure they possess integrity and competence.
This quote by Zachary Taylor emphasizes the gravity of the president's role in appointing individuals to office. It highlights the importance of selecting honest, capable, and loyal candidates for governmental positions, asserting that failure in any of these areas is a valid reason for dismissal, thereby promoting accountability and integrity within leadership.
In practice
In a speech addressing the importance of ethical leadership, one might quote Taylor to stress the necessity of integrity in public office.
As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don't intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
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 calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.
Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.
The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power.
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
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