Warren G. Harding

“America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.”

“Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.”

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends... They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”

“I am not fit for this office and should never have been there.”

“Progress is not proclamation nor palaver. It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is devotion to duty and determination to perform.”

“In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”

“There is no substitute for a militant freedom.”

“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.”

“We do not mean to be entangled. We will not be entangled.”