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Gerald Ford: “We are not motivated by the love of government power but the fear of it, and we should be.”

On the recordOctober 11, 1976
We are not motivated by the love of government power but the fear of it, and we should be.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a Republican National Committee Dinner in New York City

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