188 Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

I am 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.

Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you’ll still ‘beat the pack.’

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.

If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world.

We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government – a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

One of the enduring truths of the nation’s capital is that bureaucrats survive.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.