Harding Quotes

• Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

  Florence Harding

  Warren Harding, Wells, Presidency

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

  Ken Kesey

  Crazy, Mcmurphy, Hands

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing out deals to specific groups. Coolidge fixed a problem like that. He came into a rough time and he, and Harding before him, fixed that by budgeting.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Groups, Budgeting

  Source: www.mikechurch.com

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• Throughout American history, we have elected presidents who had not been honest man. Warren Harding, Richard Nixon, to some extent, Lyndon Johnson just to name a few.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Men, Names, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

  John Wesley Harding

  Years, Want, Said

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• With me more than anybody it seems silly having a stage name, and there wasn't any particular difference between me and John Wesley Harding. There wasn't any need to draw that line. I just happened to draw it.

  John Wesley Harding

  Silly, Names, Differences

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The people you might lose are the people who look at a marquee and are like, "Oh, John Wesley Harding is playing. I went to see him play 20 years ago." But if they see Wesley Stace, they might make absolutely no link between those two things at all.

  John Wesley Harding

  Years, Play, Two

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.

  John Wesley Harding

  Nice, Moving, Writing

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Thinking, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Thinking, Intelligent

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• Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

  Ralph Nader

  Ignorant, President, Warren Harding

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• I just want to point out that Warren Harding, The Times assailed his nomination for president.And we can see how effective that was.

  Dalia Mogahed

  President, Want, Nominations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

  Ken Livingstone

  Thinking, Government, President

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• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

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• Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wire, Way, Hours

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• All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Mean, Entanglement, Traps

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• Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, War, Next Day

  American Mercury, Apr. 1928

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• During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

  Tony Horwitz

  War, Believe, Marine

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• The truth is that many powerful guys have fooled around while working for the people. Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Warren Harding to name just a few. Grover Cleveland even fathered a child outside of marriage. We all know these things happen. But we don't want them to happen - at least most of us don't. I can't speak for San Francisco.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Powerful, Names

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