Warren G. Harding: “The base of the pyramid of civilization which rests upon the soil is shrinking through the drift of population from farm…”

In our pursuit of markets we must give as well as receive.

Its preparation is a signal achievement, and the perfection of the system, a thing impossible in the few months available for its initial trial, will mark its enactment as the beginning of the greatest reformation in governmental practices…

We have been giving, and are giving now, of our influence and appeals to minimize the likelihood of war and throw off the crushing burdens of armament.

During the anxieties of war, when necessity seemed compelling there were excessive grants of authority and all extraordinary concentration of powers in the Chief Executive.