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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.

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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I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
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My golf must be improving, I'm not hitting as many spectators.
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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 strongly support the feeding of children.
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There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
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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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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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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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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
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I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.
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Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.
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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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We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.
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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.
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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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I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
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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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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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It feels like getting a back massage from the Grim Reaper: one must get comfortable with the most horrifying things in the world.
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Frankly, I've never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.
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