I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTERTo be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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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.
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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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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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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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