Warren Harding on how to win an election

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

~ Warren G. Harding, 29th president

Warren G. Harding
1922-1925

H.L. Mencken on President Warren G. Harding's writing style

He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.

~ H.L. Mencken

Warren Harding on war

My best judgment of America's needs is to steady down, to get squarely on our feet, to make sure of the right path. Let's get out of the fevered delirium of war, with the hallucination that all the money in the world is to be made in the madness of war and the wildness of its aftermath. Let us stop to consider that tranquility at home is more precious than peace abroad, and that both our good fortune and our eminence are dependent on the normal forward stride of all the American people.

~ President Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
1938