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Warren G. Harding Quotes

Birth Date: 1865-11-02 (Thursday, November 2nd, 1865)
Date of Death: 1923-08-02 (Thursday, August 2nd, 1923)

 

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U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.Thursday, June 30th, 1921
President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.Friday, October 21st, 1921
The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.Friday, November 11th, 1921
President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.Wednesday, February 8th, 1922
The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.Friday, August 3rd, 1923

Quotes

    • America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
    • Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.
    • Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
    • 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!
    • I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
    • 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.
    • In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.
    • 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.
    • Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
    • Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
    • The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
    • 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.
    • I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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