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
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.
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
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 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.
We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
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.
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.
I knew that this job would be too much for me.
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.
There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.
I 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.
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.
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.