Warren Harding actually said...

"We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment."

"The ways of peace are in kept agreements."

"Settlement may enforce hardships and denials and economies which hinder the easy way to restoration, but it maintains the foundations of financial honor which must be everlasting."

"As President, speaking for the United States, I am more interested in adherence to such a tribunal in the best form attainable than I am concerned about the triumph of Presidential insistence."