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.
JIMMY CARTERGod always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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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.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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I 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.
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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