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 Gamaliel Harding, speech in Boston, May 24, 1920.
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Allow me to note preëmptively that Harding referred to nationality — which is to say being a nation — and did not use the troublesome word “nationalism”, which means different things to different people and in different contexts.