Part A From the following excerpt, which sentences best reflect Harding's desire to return to normalcy after the war? Why? "The
world needs to be reminded that all human ills are not curable by legislation, and that quantity of statutory enactment and excess of government offer no substitute for quality of citizenship. America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums, but norjalcy, 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. My best judgment of America's needs is to steady down, to get squarely on our feet to make sure of the right path. Let's get out of the fevered delirium of war, with the hallucination that all the money in the world is to be made in the madness of war and the wildness of its aftermath. Let us stop to consider that tranquility at home is more precious than peace abroad, and that both our good fortune and our eminence are dependent on the normal forward stride of all the American people... B Font Sizes A ini
The last two sentences express a desire to return to normalcy. Harding is saying that by moving past the war, Americans can enjoy peace at home and good fortune in their day-to-day lives.
