God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
JIMMY CARTERTo be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
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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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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.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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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’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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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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The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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