You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.
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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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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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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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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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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’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.
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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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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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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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