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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald R. Ford
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Gerald R. Ford
Age: 93 †
Born: 1913
Born: July 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 26
American Football Player
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This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
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Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.
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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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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.
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Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?
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Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
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I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.
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The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.
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If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.
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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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Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.
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I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
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Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.
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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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