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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands
is to demonstrate here that our democratic system
is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
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If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Republicans are men of narrow vision,
who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Whatever starts in California,
unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
- Jimmy Carter
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy,
because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
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
I look forward to these confrontations with the press
to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things
that come to me as president.
- Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
- Jimmy Carter
You cannot 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
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
I say to you quite frankly that
the time for racial discrimination is over.
- Jimmy Carter
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
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
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
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
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.
- Jimmy Carter
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
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
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
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
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail.
A best friend is the one sitting next
to you saying "boy was that fun."
- The Maugles
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
Barf: I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!
- the movie Spaceballs (1987)
My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
- Anonymous
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
- Lord Chesterfield
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs
and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Heaven must be an awfully dull place
if your best friends end up elsewhere.
- Anonymous
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
That's what Tiggers do best!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
The best thing about the future is
that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
Honesty may be the best policy,
but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination,
dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
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