There are no adequate substitutes for fa... by Gerald R. Ford

President Family Mother Republican United States

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

- Gerald R. Ford

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I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

- Gerald R. Ford

Approval First

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

- Gerald R. Ford

Golf

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

- Gerald R. Ford

Americans

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

- Gerald R. Ford

America

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

- Gerald R. Ford

Man First

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

- Gerald R. Ford

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Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

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I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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