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It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter
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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
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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.
Jimmy Carter
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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Jimmy Carter
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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
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
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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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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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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.
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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