Gerald R Ford Famous Quotes
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. (On Watergate crisis)
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."
"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."
"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."
"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)"
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)"
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)"
"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
"It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must."
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
Gerald R Ford Quotations
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."
Steven Wright
"If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle."
Samuel Johnson
"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
Charlize Theron
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks."
Carol Botwin
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
Theodore Hesburgh
"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them."
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain