Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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Our nation of immigrants is, tautologically, a nation of emigrants.
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Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
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Patriots don't let their nation default.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
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The remarkable thing about the U.S. is that for so long we were so big, and we were not heavily engaged. We have to worry about global financial crises affecting our economy.
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Let us trust that all Mexicans, taught by the prolonged and painful experience of the calamities of war, will cooperate in the future for the wellbeing and the prosperity of the nation, which can only be obtained through an undoubted respect for the law and an obedience to the authorities elected by the people.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.
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If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.
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A nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation.
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Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!
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I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
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You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.
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How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
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A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.
