49 Quotes by Warren G. Harding

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

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.

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by US Marines.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.