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The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

— Warren G. 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.

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