Quote#Books & Reading
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter.…
Quote byWarren G. Harding · 1865–1923
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove..
English (original)
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
— Warren G. Harding
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