Jimmy Carter Quotes

• 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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• Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

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• We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities – not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

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• If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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• Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

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• We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way to become president of the United States.

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• We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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• The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

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  Topics in Justice, Politics

• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

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  Topics in Service

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Jimmy Carter (192)

Birth:	1st October, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

James Earl Carter Jr. (Jimmy Carter) was born in Plains, Georgia, USA. He is an American Democratic politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He served as the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. He earned a BS degree from US Naval Academy, Annapolis in 1946. In 1943, he joined the United States Navy and served on submarines. He left the Navy later in 1953 to return to his home state Georgia, where he worked as a peanut farmer. He has written several books include: Why Not the Best?, A government as good as its people, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, Everything to gain (with Rosalynn Carter), Talking peace, Living Faith, Sources of strength, An hour before daylight (memoir, Nominations: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography), Christmas in Plains (memoir), and Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He married to Rosalynn Smith in 1946. They have three sons and one daughter.

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