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date: 22 March 2023

Gerald Ford 1909–2006
American Republican statesman, 38th President 1974–7 

  1. If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.
    John F. Parker If Elected (1960)
  2. Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men.
    on being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974, G. J. Lankevich Gerald R. Ford (1977); see Adams