Warren G. Harding Quotes


Twenty-Ninth President
1921-1923 
Born: November 2, 1865 in Corsica (Blooming Grove), Ohio 
Died: August 2, 1923 during his presidency while visiting San Francisco, California 
Married to Florence Kling Harding 



America's Need
"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....
Warren G. Harding
Source:http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html

Americanism
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to 
carry an election. 
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/warren_g_harding.html

Black Vote
"Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote, prohibit the white man voting when he 
is unfit to vote."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm



Friends
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! 
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/warren_g_harding.html

God
"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."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm



Government
"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same 
time do for it too little."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm

"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."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm

"The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation 
of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm

Profits in War Time
"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."
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/warrengharding/a/quoteharding.htm



Solitay Men
Only solitay men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; 
but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. 
Warren G. Harding 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/warren_g_harding.html

Taxation
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 
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/warren_g_harding.html 

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