Gerald Ford, our 38th president, died this past week. I thought it appropriate to offer a few quotes from Ford today.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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It can go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
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I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
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In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
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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.
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