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1865–1923 United States
Warren Gamaliel Harding (2 November 1865 – 2 August 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death. Although Harding died one of the most popular presidents in history, 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.
United States Baptists Politicians Also known as: Harding, Warren G., Warren Gamaliel Harding, Warren Harding
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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
"It is good to meet and drink at the fountains of wisdom inherited from the founding fathers of the Republic."
I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1939)
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.
The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
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.
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.
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!
I think it's an inspiration to patriotic devotion to safeguard America first, to stabilize America first, to prosper America first, to think of America first, to exalt America first, to live for and revere America first.
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.
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.
Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until he senses the great weight of responsibility for himself, I must utter my belief in the divine inspiration of the founding fathers.
A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul.
The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Misattributed Actually an exchange between journalist Talcott Williams and Sen. Boies Penrose (1919)
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.
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