Gerald Ford actually said...

Wilderness preservation insures that a central facet of our Nation can still be realized, not just remembered.

Message to the Congress Proposing Establishment of New National Wilderness Areas

12/03/1974

More Gerald Ford Quotes

The facts are, we can afford no more delays.

I believe that the program of the previous four or five Presidents was aimed in the right direction.

I will reject any advice to pull down the Stars and Stripes and sail home from the seas of the world.

It is essential to our national security, and it is more essential today than it was in January.