Jimmy Carter Quotes

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."
-Jimmy Carter in Nature quotes.

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
-Jimmy Carter in America quotes.

"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
-Jimmy Carter

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
-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

"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."
-Jimmy Carter in America quotes.

"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
-Jimmy Carter

"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
-Jimmy Carter in Fear quotes.

"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

"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."
-Jimmy Carter