Jimmy Carter quotes

1924–2024 · Plains, GA

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Remarks at a Kennedy-Lawrence Dinner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1976
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The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war?
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Address at a Luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association in New York City, June 23, 1976
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It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will.
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Address to the Nation on Energy and National Goals: "The Malaise Speech", July 15, 1979
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival; liberty is human rights; the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
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Farewell Address to the Nation, January 14, 1981
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it's the other way around. Human rights invented America.
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Farewell Address to the Nation, January 14, 1981
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The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara