We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
JIMMY CARTERFaith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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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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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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
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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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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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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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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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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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