Warren Harding Quotes

#1. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite. I

Gillian Flynn

#2. Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Ralph Nader

#3. During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

Tony Horwitz

#4. I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

Dalia Mogahed

#5. Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

Florence Harding

#6. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Jimmy Carter

#7. He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

Warren G. Harding

#8. America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

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#9. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

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#10. Every student has the ability to be a successful learner,

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#11. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

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#12. I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

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#13. Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

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#14. Less government in business and more business in government.

Warren G. Harding

#15. FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.

Bill Bryson

#16. There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

Warren G. Harding

#17. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

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#18. We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

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#19. The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

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#20. It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day be restored to their historic national home and there enter on a new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity.

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#21. I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

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#22. Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

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#23. That's good. Go on, read some more.

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#24. In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

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#25. I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

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#26. There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

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#27. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

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#28. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

Utah Phillips

#29. I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

Warren G. Harding

#30. I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

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#31. I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

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#32. My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off ... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves ...

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#33. Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

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#34. I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

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#35. I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

Warren G. Harding

#36. Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

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#37. Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

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#38. We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

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#39. Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

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#40. I knew that this job would be too much for me.

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#41. I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

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#42. The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

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#43. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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#44. The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

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#45. Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

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