Gerald R. Ford Quotes About Mercy

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  • I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

    Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.
  • My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

    On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)
  • If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

  • As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

    Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.
  • I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

    Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.
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Gerald R. Ford

  • Born: July 14, 1913
  • Died: December 26, 2006
  • Occupation: 38th U.S. President