Quote#Science & Reason
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but…
Quote byWarren G. Harding · 1865–1923
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in Boston, Massachusetts (24 May 1920); Harding is often thought to have coined the word "normalcy" in this speech, but the word is recorded as early as the 1850s as alternative to "normality"..
English (original)
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
— Warren G. Harding
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