Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.
Quotes to Explore
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce.
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It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.... Always remember that.
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
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The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
