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Quotes about Jimmy carter

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

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
 
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“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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“You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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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”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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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.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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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.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: thinkexist.com
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“The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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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.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: Thinkexist.com
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“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

Jimmy Carter : b. James Earl Carter, Jr.  39th US president, 1977-81
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Source: thinkexist.com
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“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

James (Jimmy) Carter
Source: thinkexist.com
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