Gerald Ford actually said...

let all of us, as equal partners in a Nation of justice under law, resolve to work, with all our strength and common sense, to achieve . . . a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

Context

Proclamation 4312—Citizenship Day and Constitution Week, 1974

09/11/1974

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