Warren G. Harding Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Warren G. Harding

  Religious, Years, Presidential

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• I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Venture, Qualified

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• Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Flagpoles

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• 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.

  Warren G. Harding

  Men, President, Position

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• 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 U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• 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.

  Warren G. Harding

  Hurt, Long, Lips

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• I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Yosemite, Caps

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• The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

  Warren G. Harding

  Thinking, Opposites, America

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• 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 heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Mind, Hot

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• I was spent up. I sure grabbed that girl of mine.

  Warren G. Harding

  Girl, Climbing, That Girl

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