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Warren Harding: “Anything tending to break down personal initiative, to destroy enterprise and ambition, must not enter into any program…”

On the recordJune 27, 1923
Anything tending to break down personal initiative, to destroy enterprise and ambition, must not enter into any program which can hope for the approval of the American people.
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Warren Harding
Republican · Ohio

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Address in Idaho Falls, Idaho

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