Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Hardingwas the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. Harding died one of the most popular presidents in history, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under him, such as Teapot Dome, eroded his popular regard, as did revelations of an affair by Nan Britton, one of his mistresses. In historical rankings of the U.S. presidents, Harding is often rated among the worst...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth2 November 1865
CityBlooming Grove, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.
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.
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...
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.
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I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.