Quotes from Warren G. Harding

Liberty--liberty within the law--and civilization are inseparable, and though both were threatened we find them now secure; and there comes to Americans the profound assurance that our representative government is the highest expression and surest guaranty of both.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

I am not fit for this office and never should have been here.

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.

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.

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

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

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.