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I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

— Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values (2005)

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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.

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)

The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.

Nobel lecture (2002)

We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Presidency (1977)

Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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