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
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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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.
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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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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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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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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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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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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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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I’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.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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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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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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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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