Warren G. Harding

There is, indeed, a too great divergence between the economic conditions of the most and the least favored classes in the community.

The right of labor to organize is just as fundamental and necessary as is the right of capital to organize.

The right of labor to negotiate, to deal with and solve its particular problems in an organized way, through its chosen agents, is just as essential as is the right of capital to organize, to maintain corporations, to limit the liabilities…

Just as it is not desirable that a corporation shall be allowed to impose undue exactions upon the public, so it is not desirable that a labor organization shall be permitted to exact unfair terms of employment or subject the public to…

In an industrial society such as ours the strike, the lockout, and the boycott are as much out of place and as disastrous in their results as is war or armed revolution in the domain of politics.

Home making is one of the greater benefits which government can bestow.

While we are thinking of promoting the fortunes of our own people I am sure there is room in the sympathetic thought of America for fellow human beings who are suffering and dying of starvation in Russia.

Our voluntary agencies are exerting themselves to the utmost to save the lives of children in this area, but it is now evident that unless relief is afforded the loss of life will extend into many millions.

America can not be deaf to such a call as that.

The big thing is the call of the suffering and the dying.

The time has come to add the Government's support to the wonderful relief already wrought out of the generosity of the American private purse.

I do not mean that partisan preferences should hinder any public servant in the performance of a conscientious and patriotic official duty.