Warren G. Harding Quotes & Sayings

I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine. — Warren G. Harding

That's good. Go on, read some more. — Warren G. Harding

I knew that this job would be too much for me. — Warren G. Harding

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

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !. — Warren G. Harding

Less government in business and more business in government. — Warren G. Harding

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

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

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

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

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

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend — 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! — Warren G. Harding

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off ... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves ... — Warren G. Harding

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election. — Warren G. Harding

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

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

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters. — Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was, — Warren G. Harding

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

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock. — Warren G. Harding

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here. — Warren G. Harding

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here. — Warren G. Harding

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

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

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. — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner, — Warren G. Harding

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. — Warren G. Harding