AHTER 1919 Warren G Harding - Campaign Speech

Nationality is the call of the hearts of liberated people, and the dream of those to whom freedom becomes an undying cause. It's the guiding light, the calm, the prayer, the consternations for our own people, although we were never assured in this liberal union until the civil war was fought.

many red-blooded Americans consent now when we have come to understand its priceless value to merge our nationality into internationality merely because brotherhood and fraternity and fellowship and peace are soothing and appealing terms out of the poor men, the turmoil, the the debt and echoing sorrows, out of the appalling waste and far-reaching disordered, out of

the threats against orderly governments and the assaults on our present-day civilizations, I think, sirs, I can see the opening way for America. We must preserve the inheritance and claim to just government. We do not need, and we do not mean to live within, and for ourselves alone.

But we do mean to hold our ideals safe from foreign incursions. We have commanded respect and confidence, commanded them in the friendships and the associations of peace, commanded them in the conflicts comradeships of war. It's easily possible to hold the world's high estimates to righteous relationships if our ideals of civilization are the

best in the world and I proudly believe that they are. Then we often send the American Starters to the earth leading on to fulfilment. Am I a great in saving civilization? Americans will not fail civilization in the deliberate advancement of peace. We are willing to give, but we resent demands. I do not believe, Senators, that it is going to break the heart of the world