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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.
- Jimmy Carter
#Father
#Great
#Me
#Sports
#Time
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
- Jimmy Carter
#Challenge
#Earth
#Peace
#War
#White
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
- Jimmy Carter
#Morning
#Past
#Research
#Tired
#Walk
Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
- Jimmy Carter
#Done
#Leadership
#Myself
#Nation
#Way
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter
#Best
#Freedom
#System
#Way
#Worthy
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
#Children
#Live
#Peace
#Together
#Will
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.
- Jimmy Carter
#Day
#God
#Knowledge
#Life
#Mind
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
- Jimmy Carter
#Democracy
#Earth
#Freedom
#Hindu
#India
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
#Adversity
#Democracy
#Experience
#Life
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
- Jimmy Carter
#Attitude
#Eyes
#God
#Men
#Women
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
#Alone
#Best
#Done
#Oneself
#Testing
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
- Jimmy Carter
#Campaign
#Egypt
#Me
#Nobody
#Peace
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
#Cannot
#Champion
#Peace
#War
#World
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
- Jimmy Carter
#Bible
#Experience
#Home
#Knowledge
#New
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
#Achievement
#Fear
#Human
#Lowest
#Mad
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
- Jimmy Carter
#Control
#Faith
#Good
#Gun
#Respect
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
- Jimmy Carter
#Believe
#Equality
#Life
#Men
#Women
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.
- Jimmy Carter
#God
#Political
#Public Service
#Service
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
#Afternoon
#Coming
#Live
#Lives
#Should
My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
- Jimmy Carter
#Admired
#Favourite
#Most
#President
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
#Fail
#Failure
#Fear
#Necessary
#Prospect
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
#Government
#Human
#People
#Right
#Wisdom
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.
- Jimmy Carter
#Children
#Good
#Honor
#Love
#Nature
#Peace
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
#Faith
#Just
#Simple
#You
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 made behind locked doors.
- Jimmy Carter
#Common Good
#Difficult
#Doors
#Good
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
#Come
#Day
#Globalization
#Living
#Never
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
- Jimmy Carter
#California
#Spread
#Starts
#Whatever
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
#Afraid
#Future
#Men
#Politics
#Vision
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
- Jimmy Carter
#America
#Painting
#Patriotism
#Suffering
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
- Jimmy Carter
#Being
#Define
#Own
#People
#Us
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
#Agreement
#Both
#Permanent
#Sides
#Win
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter
#Human Rights
#Human
#Rights
#Sense
#Soul
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
#Evil
#Good
#Peace
#Together
#War
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
- Jimmy Carter
#Aggression
#Becomes
#Contagious
#Disease
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Jimmy Carter
#Drown
#Go
#Swimming
#Troubles
#Wife
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
- Jimmy Carter
#Avoid
#Confidence
#Lie
#Me
#Never
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.
- Jimmy Carter
#God
#Heart
#Lust
#Me
#Women
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
- Jimmy Carter
#Democracy
#Life
#My Life
#Now
#Political
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
#Art
#Love
#Music
#Nature
#Political
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
#Adjust
#Hold
#Must
#Principles
#Still
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
#Better
#Sometimes
#Think
#You Can Do It
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
- Jimmy Carter
#Bring
#Equality
#Herself
#People
#Process
#Who
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
#Beautiful
#Dreams
#Melting Pot
#People
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
- Jimmy Carter
#Computers
#Globalization
#Technology
#Us
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.'
- Jimmy Carter
#Graduation
#Spiritual
#Strength
#Teacher
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