American - President | October 1, 1924 -
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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.
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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.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.
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My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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.
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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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I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK.
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