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. HardingThe success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
Warren G. HardingI don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Warren G. HardingI 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. HardingIt 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. HardingOur most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
Warren G. HardingHe liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
Warren G. HardingThere 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. HardingIn 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.
Warren G. HardingAmbition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
Warren G. HardingTreat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
Warren G. HardingIt 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.
Warren G. HardingThe 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.
Warren G. HardingMy 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.
Warren G. HardingAmerica's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. HardingI 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.
Warren G. HardingI have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. 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. I am bound to believe that in a tumultuous age like ours the most important and imperative duty is the reconstruction of humanity to Almighty God.
Warren G. HardingI continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
Warren G. HardingI couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
Warren G. HardingThere 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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