188 Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

If it is a clich? to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

I couldn’t wait to start the day.

Let America symbolize humanity’s struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual’s control over his or her future-and of the future of America.

I just don’t think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.

Obviously, it’s a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

Things are the way they are now, more than they ever have been before.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion – or you shall learn nothing.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn’t we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?