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Less government in business and more business in government.

Warren G. Harding

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Warren G. Harding
Age: 57 †
Born: 1865
Born: November 2
Died: 1923
Died: August 2
29Th U.S. President
Businessperson
Newspaper Editor
Politician
Statesperson
Blooming Grove
Ohio
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
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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.
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Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.
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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.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
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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.
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I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
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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.
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Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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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.
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That's good. Go on, read some more.
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He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
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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.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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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.
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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.
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I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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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.
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