President Quotes

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Ideas control the world.

I am a poor hater.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

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.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

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.

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

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 had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

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.

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

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

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

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.