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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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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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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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I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
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I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.
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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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That's good. Go on, read some more.
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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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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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I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
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There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.
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I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
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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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Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.
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I knew that this job would be too much for me.
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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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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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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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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
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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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