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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.

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
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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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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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I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.
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Less government in business and more business in government.
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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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We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
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