Quotes from Warren G. Harding

America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration.

Liberty--liberty within the law--and civilization are inseparable, and though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative government is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

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. ~ Warren G. Harding

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Less government in business and more business in government.

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.

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

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

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.

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

My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.

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.

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

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

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.

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