Quotes from Nobel lecture — Jimmy Carter
1924–2024 United States
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The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.
Nobel lecture (2002)
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past.
Nobel lecture (2002)
The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.
Nobel lecture (2002)
It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus.
Nobel lecture (2002)
Ladies and gentlemen: 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.
Nobel lecture (2002)
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
Nobel lecture (2002)
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes — and we must.
Nobel lecture (2002)