Famous Quotes by Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

  • We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs,... More
  • A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained.... More
  • America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. More
  • I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as president. And Sunday night before last,... More
  • In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us may realize who... More
  • The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction... More
  • Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by... More
  • I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. More
  • I’m a Sunday School teacher, and I’ve always known that the structure of law is founded on... More
  • I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God’s help. I pray... More
  • At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. More
  • Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the... More
  • We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in... More
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same... More
  • The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but... More
  • It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer,... More
  • ... the Hatter [said], tossing his head contemptuously. “I dare say you never even spoke to... More
  • People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing... More
  • This is the first national administration we’ve ever seen where the housewife couldn’t afford... More
  • It’s almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs,... More
  • Sadat was a great and good man, and ... his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who... More
  • They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as... More
  • Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not... More
  • I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully... More
  • One alone in a Chinese square
    confronted tanks, while others fled.
    He stood for freedom... More
  • I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This... More
  • I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God... More
  • I don’t like to be idle; in fact, I often feel somewhat guilty unless there is some purpose to... More
  • I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life. More
  • I can’t change the teachings of Christ. I can’t change the teachings of Christ!... I’ve... More
  • I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching... More
  • This is a pain I mostly hide,
    but ties of blood, or seed endure,
    and even now I feel... More
  • The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation... More
  • As we meet here at Camp David we ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice... More
  • The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic... More
  • We in the South were ready for reconciliation, to be accepted as equals, to rejoin the mainstream... More
  • All of us recognize the great benefits to our own nation and to the world of a strong and... More
  • Bystanders paused. I blabbed my name.
    He frowned. “Naw, that ain’t it,” he said. More
  • It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or... More
  • During my administration the most unpleasant and perhaps most dramatic negotiations in which we... More
  • Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the... More
  • This is one of the worst speeches I’ve ever seen. No one will listen except the Mobil P.R. man.... More
  • Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling... More
  • Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of... More
  • Rosalynn said, “Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on... More
  • There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the... More
  • The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and... More
  • Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system... More
  • If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and... More
  • But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice. More
  • I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am... More
  • You just have to have a simple faith. More
  • Testing oneself is best when done alone. More
  • There is an enormous chasm between the relatively rich and powerful people who make decisions in... More
  • It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who... More
  • Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. More
  • I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer... More
  • A nation’s domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards... More
  • Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. No poor, rural,... More
  • I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along... More

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