I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTERThe abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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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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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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 cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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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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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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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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We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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