Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
JIMMY CARTERAlways tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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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 have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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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 say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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.
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We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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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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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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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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