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Famous Quotes By Jimmy Carter
 Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. 
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
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.
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.
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.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
You just have to have a simple faith.
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