To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
JIMMY CARTERAll 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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’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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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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 cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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