Warren G. Harding: “It has its vicissitudes which no legislation will prevent, its hardships for which no law can provide escape.”

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 recognize the necessity of buying wherever we sell, and the permanency of trade lies in its acceptable exchanges.

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

It were better to, remain on firm ground, strive for ample employment and high standards of wage at home, and point the way to balanced budgets, rigid economies, and resolute, efficient work as the necessary remedies to cure disaster.