Gerald Ford on America

I’m Gerald Ford, and you’re not.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)

• Politics

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)