Gerald R. Ford

President

1913-07-14

Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

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

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• The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

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

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• The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

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• I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

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• 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.

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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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• Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

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• The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

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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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• History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

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• If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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