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 CARTERGo out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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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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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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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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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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You always get back much more than you give.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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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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