Famous Quotes

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

Gerald R. Ford on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Gerald R. Ford

• "I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

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

• "I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."

• "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."

• "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."