"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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"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.“
-Gerald R. Ford
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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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