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Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

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
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Statesperson
Blooming Grove
Ohio
Warren Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding
President Harding
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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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There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.
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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.
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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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Less government in business and more business in government.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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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.
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Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
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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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