Herman Melville Quotes
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Harding, in his quest for the 1920 Republican presidential nomination, attempted to be as non-controversial as possible. His "6 Point Program" was:
This is particularly true for politicians where many who seem to have so little talent and wisdom seem to have followers and supporters.
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the centennial of his birth in 1919 was the starting point of a Melville revival and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.
