Warren G. Harding Men Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

Less government in business and more business in government.

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

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.

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.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.