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Common Quotes by Jimmy Carter
- If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- 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…
- Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and…
- Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
- Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On…
- I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead…
- The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who…
- Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
- The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
- And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you…
- But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and…
- The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
- We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
- Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin