Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
108
AUTHOR:
Gerald R Ford, 38th US President
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars, Chicago, 19 Aug 74
