Warren G. Harding Quotes

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• Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
• It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day…
• I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Less government in business and more business in government.
• I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.
• I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
• As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and…
• I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.
• Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.
• He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
• My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly…
• 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…
• I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,
• I hate climbers like Royal Robbins who are so superior. He doesn’t mean to be, he just is. He’s methodic, scientific, capable, and so competent…

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