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.
JIMMY CARTERAnd 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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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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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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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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I 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.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
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