Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
JIMMY CARTERYou always get back much more than you give.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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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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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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 say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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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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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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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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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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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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