On the record
We ask no one to assume responsibility for us; we assume no responsibility which others must bear for themselves, unless nationality is hopelessly swallowed up in internationalism.
Said by
Warren G. Harding
Source
gutenberg.orgWarren G. Harding: “We ask no one to assume responsibility for us; we assume no responsibility which others must bear for themselves, unless…”
Editor's note · Context
Harding clarifies that the U.S. will not take on responsibilities that belong to other nations unless national identity is compromised.
Share
More from Warren G. Harding
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.
Again comes the reminder that we must not be unmindful of world conditions, that peoples are struggling for industrial rehabilitation and that we can not dwell in industrial and commercial exclusion and at the same time do the just thing…
We ought not to find these partisan lines obstructing the expeditious solution of the urgent problems of peace.
We ought to amend to meet the demands of the people when sanctioned by deliberate public opinion.