Warren G. Harding: “We do not seek to become an international dictator because of its power.”

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.

We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled, and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew.

The repeal of war-time legislation and the automatic expirations which attended the peace proclamations have put an end to these emergency excesses but I have the wish to go further than that.

There is actual depression in our agricultural industry, while agricultural prosperity is absolutely essential to the general prosperity of the country.