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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Citizens, Poverty, Treats

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.

Strong, Thoughtful, Compassion

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Peace, War, Memorable

Jimmy Carter, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration, Gerald R. Ford (1978). “The Presidential campaign, 1976”

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... 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.

Differences, Long, Generosity

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Inspirational, Life, Leadership

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

Honesty, Government, People

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

Humility, Helping Others, Compassion

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

Honesty, Powerful, Government

Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales

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

Beautiful, Dream, America

Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Common Humanity, Stronger, Prejudice

Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.159, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Failure, Reality, Challenges

Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Hands, People, Opinion

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Inspirational, Motivational, Real

Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

Being True

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.287, e-artnow sro

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Anniversary, Patriotic, Swimming

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Rights, Champion, Humans

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

Life, Healing, Teens

Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press

You always get back much more than you give.

Giving, Get Back

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

Marriage, Wife, Argument

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Love, Nature, Art

Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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

Inspirational, Morning, Failure

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Jesus, Teaching, Gay

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

Life, Determination, Commitment

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

Veterans Day, Peace, Children

Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.158, Andrews McMeel Publishing

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Life, Softball, Religion

Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976

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Born: b. October 1, 1924
Occupation: 39th U.S. President

Quotes: 495

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