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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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

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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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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

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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. ↗

— William Vickrey

#balanced budget #budget #depression #drive #economy

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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

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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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

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