Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
761
AUTHOR:
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913– )
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
President GERALD R. FORD, remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974, p. 2.
