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The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.
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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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.
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If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
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There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
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Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
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The Communist leaders in Moscow, Peking and Hanoi must fully understand that the United States considers the freedom of South Viet Nam vital to our interests. And they must know that we are not bluffing in our determination to defend those interests.
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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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Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
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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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Ronald Regan doesn't dye his hair - he's just prematurely orange.
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
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Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
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