"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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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.“
-Gerald R. Ford
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"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."
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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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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
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