Warren G. Harding Quotes
America's present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy, not revolution but restoration, not agitation but adjustment, not surgery but serenity, not the dramatic but the dispassionate, not experiment but equipoise, not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
Warren G. Harding, 1865-1923, 29th President of the United States (Republican, OH), Speech, Boston, May 1920
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Actually “normalcy” was not a theory but a slogan or a codeword. See {624061}.
She had been asked what she had hoped to accomplish be killing Marat. Of all people Marat had been the most active and vigorous in calling for the beheading of thousands in the French Revolution. It was known as the Reign of Terror.
When the left in Spain began calling for a workers revolution, the right and the clerics called for “peace and harmony.”
- Born: November 2, 1865
- Died: August 2, 1923
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular U.S. presidents to that point. After his death, a number of scandals, including Teapot Dome, came to light, as did his extramarital affair with Nan Britton; those eroded his popular regard.
