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Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "The recorded progress of our Republic ... proves the wisdom of the inherited policy of noninvolvement in Old World affairs ... We seek no part in directing the destinies of the Old World. We do not mean to be entangled." #100yearsago

"While the world's embittered travail did not leave us devastated lands...it did involve us in the delirium of expenditure, in expanded currency and credits, in unbalanced industry, in unspeakable waste...Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way." #100yearsago

Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "We can reduce the abnormal expenditures, and we will. We can strike at war taxation, and we must ... Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little." #100yearsago

Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "No altered system will work a miracle. Any wild experiment will only add to the confusion. Our best assurance lies in efficient administration of our proven system." #100yearsago

Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America ... I had rather submit our industrial controversies to the conference table." #100yearsago

Mar 4, 1921 - Harding's Inaugural Address: "We cannot, while throwing our markets open to the world, maintain American standards of living and opportunity ... preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports." #100yearsago