“It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.”

—  Warren G. Harding

Relayed by Bishop William F. Anderson as a remark by a friend of Harding, in "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer" (2 April 1922) New York Times
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