I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTERI have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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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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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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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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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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