"A strong nation, like a strong person, can……" — Jimmy Carter
"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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299 Quotes by Jimmy Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you…
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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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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.…
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself…
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream…
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
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I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it.…
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it…
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