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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.

Jimmy Carter

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
JIMMY CARTER

Achievement Fear Human Mad Yourself
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 CARTER

Compassionate Government Honesty Myself Nation People
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
JIMMY CARTER

Myself Public Religious Service Violation
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Fact Faith Government Myself Prayer Religious
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Deal Government Powerful Privilege Test
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

Life Live Ourselves
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTER

Character Farmer Heart Myself
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
JIMMY CARTER

Art Beautiful Different Dreams Hope Pieces
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Human Invention Reality Right
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
JIMMY CARTER

Conflict Environmental Nature Place Water
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
JIMMY CARTER

Abuse Earth Human Violation Woman
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
JIMMY CARTER

Concentration Decision Difficult Lock
We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
JIMMY CARTER

Cry Home Need Requirement Start Strength Talk White
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Hungry Peace Poverty World
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTER

Direction Hate Live Prevail
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
JIMMY CARTER

Citizenship Helpless Measurement Treat Weakness

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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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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