American - President | July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006
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.
Gerald R. Ford
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
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I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
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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.
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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
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Things are more like today than they have ever been before.
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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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May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.
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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
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