Warren Harding actually said...

"We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment."

"Where resentment once abided because of the presence of our military forces in the Dominican Republic, there are today universal expressions of approval, and the processes of setting up a constitution..."

"Something in your golden gateway has impelled me to speak to you of the foreign relations of our republic. Happily it is not a message of anxiety, but one of satisfaction and rejoicing."

"The surpassing accomplishments are progressively made, and I know that the soul of America will light the way to a gratifying victory."