Gerald Ford actually said...

I suspect that we are at the present time but just as in Texas—we started in Texas as an underdog, we are making very substantial headway.

America has no intention of abdicating its leadership to any nation committed to the destruction of liberty.

I wouldn't say that we have had a sequence of non-victories.

Therefore, we must do our very best to keep the peace, not the peace of weakness and concession but the peace secured by strength and courag...