"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
-Gerald R. Ford
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.“
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"Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time."
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"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio."
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"I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
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