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Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford
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Gerald R. Ford
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 26
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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.
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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.
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We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
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In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.
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I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.
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In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
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We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms guard and cherish it keep honor and order in your own house and the republic will endure.
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Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.
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We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.
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I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.
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I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
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I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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