"I am not fit for this office and should never have been here."
— Harding to historian Nicholas Murray Butler
"It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it."
— H. L. Mencken on Harding's attempts at prose
"The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead."
— E. E. Cummings upon Harding's death
"His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork."
— William Gibbs McAdoo
