Warren G. Harding Quotes

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate task of putting our public household in order. We need a rigid and yet sane economy, combined with fiscal justice, and it must be attended by individual prudence and thrift, which are so essential to this trying hour and reassuring for the future.

The 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

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.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

It 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.

Less government in business and more business in government.

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.

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.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

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.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,