We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTERFor 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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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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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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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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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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 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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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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.
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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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