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Gerald R. Ford Quotes
Gerald R. Ford Quotes
Gerald R. Ford
American
President
Born:
Jul 14
,
1913
Died:
Dec 26
,
2006
Experience
First
Government
People
Today
Together
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford
Government
You
Big
Enough
Everything
Give
Take
Big Enough
Want
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Gerald R. Ford
Watergate
Political
Election
Organization
Party
Arrogant
National
Lesson
Guard
Must
Adolescent
Allow
Never
Terms
Dictate
America
Again
Regular
Elite
Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Gerald R. Ford
Truth
Government
Together
Truth Is
Glue
Holds
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford
History
Experience
Progress
Confusion
Complacent
Trial
Out
Tell
Moral
Comfortable
Times
Us
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford
Government
Great
Constitution
People
Men
Our
Rule
Laws
Great Republic
Republic
Works
Here
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
Gerald R. Ford
Today
Alive
He
Over
Lincoln
Were
His
Turning
Grave
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
Best
Confidence
Honesty
Honesty Is
President
Follow
Instincts
Openness
Policy
Always
Private
End
Expect
The Best Policy
Candor
In The End
Public
Your
Full
Acts
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
Government
Family
Together
Commitment
Mother
Matter
Father
Nurture
Adequate
Scheme
Take
Bound
Protect
Well-Intentioned
How
Children
Substitutes
Place
Loving
Things
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
Gerald R. Ford
Needs
Together
People
Win
Election
Backwards
Year
Late
Way
We Cannot
Slip
Though
Must
Except
Still
Go
Anybody
Cannot
Urgent
Stand
Forward
Even
Now
Serving
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Gerald R. Ford
Speak
Fly
Big
Softly
Once
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Carry
Carter
Stick
Said
Loudly
Wants
Roosevelt
Teddy
Teddy Roosevelt
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford
Victory
Defeat
President
Aim
States
Total
All-Out
Propaganda
Attack
Massive
Him
Waging
Campaign
Against
Themselves
Coalition
Groups
United
United States
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
Gerald R. Ford
Life
Remember
Political
Enemies
Had
Adversaries
Lot
Political Life
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.
Gerald R. Ford
Success
Great
Quality
People
Nation
Our
Neglected
Seem
Proud
Square
Accounts
Stability
Ordinary
Straight
Many
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Gerald R. Ford
Love
Sports
Detroit
Tigers
Always
Whenever
Radio
Watch
For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
Gerald R. Ford
Soul
Women
School
Mind
Church
Men
Men And Women
Has-Been
Moral
Hospital
Ideas
Safe
Been
Millions
I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
Gerald R. Ford
Hope
Alone
Understanding
Would
Reconciliation
Limited
Hole
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
Gerald R. Ford
First
Duty
Address
Unprecedented
Chat
Feel
Countrymen
Talk
Make
Campaign
Friends
Just
Little
Straight
Compact
Among
Speech
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Gerald R. Ford
Man
First
Say
He
Make
First Thing
The First Thing
Decide
Asked
Thing
Speech
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald R. Ford
Experience
People
Had
Smarter
Am
Lot
Than
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