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Jimmy Carter
October 1, 1924 -
Nationality: American
Category: President
Subcategory: American President

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

   

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

   

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

   

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

   

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

   

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

   

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

   

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.

   

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

   

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

   

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

   

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

   

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

   

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

   

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

   

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

   

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

   

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

   

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

   

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

   

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