Gerald R. Ford

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

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.

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.

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