Gerald R. Ford Quotes

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

It's more like it is now than it ever has been.

I love to watch times change!

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Change alone is unchanging.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Times change; people change.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

That was then. This is now.

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

Future comes by itself, progress does not.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.