I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
JIMMY CARTERI think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
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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.
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