I believe in the cooperation of the national authority to stimulate, encourage, and broaden the work of the local authorities.
Warren G. Harding
The Public Record
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 presidents at the time of his death. After that, a number of scandals were exposed that greatly damaged his reputation.
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So far as schooling youth is concerned the policy has been justified, because no responsibility can be so effective as that of the local community alive to its task.
It must be done if he is fittingly to exercise the duties as well as enjoy the privileges of American citizenship.
By the examination abroad we could end the pathos at our ports, when men and women find our doors closed, after long voyages and wasted savings, because they are unfit for admission It would be kindlier and safer to tell them before they…
Before enlarging the immigration quotas we had better provide registration for aliens, those now here or continually pressing for admission, and establish our examination boards abroad, to make sure of desirables only.
Life amid American opportunities is worth the cost of registration if it is worth the seeking, and the Nation has the right to know who are citizens in the making or who live among us anti share our advantages while seeking to undermine…
It is distracting the public mind and prejudicing the judgment of the electorate.
On the contrary, it has been so intensified as an issue that many voters are disposed to make all political decisions with reference to this single question.
It is the most demoralizing factor in our public life.
Let men who are rending the moral fiber of the Republic through easy contempt for the prohibition law, because they think it restricts their personal liberty, remember that they set the example and breed a contempt for law which will…
There is need to magnify the American viewpoint to the alien who seeks a citizenship among us.
There is a call to make the alien respect our institutions while he accepts our hospitality.