All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
JIMMY CARTERWhen people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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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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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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 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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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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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
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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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