Reflection Starter from Gerald R. Ford

"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President by your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many. . . . Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a Higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy." - Gerald R. Ford (in his address upon assuming the presidency after President Nixon's resignation, 9 August 1974)