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Quotes from Presidency — Jimmy Carter

1924–2024 United States

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34 quotes

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Presidency (1977)

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.

Presidency (1977)

We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Presidency (1977)

I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States.

Presidency (1977)

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

Presidency (1977)

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.

Presidency (1977)

The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language.

Presidency (1977)

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

Presidency (1977)

The battle for human rights — at home and abroad — is far from over.

Presidency (1977)

The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit.

Presidency (1977)

We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Presidency (1977)

The reason for raising this is that the Israeli position in the past was that they would withdraw from the West Bank, and I believe that Prime Minister Begin left the Cabinet over this issue.

Presidency (1977)

We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own.

Presidency (1977)

In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall.

Presidency (1977)

Within our system of government every American has a right and duty to help shape the future course of the United States.

Presidency (1977)

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise.

Presidency (1977)

We are at a turning point in our history.

Presidency (1977)

We cast this message into the cosmos.

Presidency (1977)

With the possible exception of my two predecessors, I know better than anyone how complicated and intransigent are some of the foreign policy questions that confront a President.

Presidency (1977)

Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

Presidency (1977)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jimmy Carter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.