Gerald R. Ford

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.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

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

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

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.

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