Warren G. Harding Quotes

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 should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

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

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

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

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

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

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

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

That's good. Go on, read some more.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

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

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

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.

I have no trouble with my enemies - I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends... They're the ones that keep me walking the floors at night!

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