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.
JIMMY CARTERI’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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.
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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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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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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