My countrymen, the surpassing war of all times has involved us, and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense. The Republic mu… - Warren G. Harding

Surely no one stops to think where the great world experiment was leading. Frankly, no one could know. We're only learning now. It would be a sorry day for this republic if we allowed our activities in seeking for peace in the Old World to blind us to the essentials of peace at home. We want a free America again. We want America free at home, and free in the world. We want to silence the outcry of nation against nation, in the fullness of understanding, and we wish to silence the cry of class against class, and stifle the party appeal to class, so that we may ensure tranquility in our own freedom. If I could choose but one, I had rather have industrial and social peace at home, than command the international peace of all the world.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.