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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.

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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Blooming Grove
Ohio
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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