Jimmy Carter quotes

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. (Jimmy Carter)
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. View quote
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. View quote
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. View quote
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. View quote
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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. View quote
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. View quote
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. View quote
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. View quote
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. View quote
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (Jimmy Carter)
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. View quote
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The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith. View quote
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We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. View quote
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I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president. View quote
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I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. View quote
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy. View quote
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. View quote
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. View quote
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. View quote
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. (Jimmy Carter)
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. View quote
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When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. View quote
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There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. View quote
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I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams. View quote
Jimmy Carter