Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Jimmy Carter Quotes Click here for Jimmy Carter books Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope "Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." "I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president." "For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years." "Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities— not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." "We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians." "Iraq is an unjust war." "This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs." "Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people, or whether extremist doctrines, the manipulation of the truth, will define America's role in the world. At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul. But I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe, as I always have, the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail." "The world has changed greatly since I left the White House. Now there is only one superpower, with unprecedented military and economic strength. The coming budget for American armaments will be greater than those of the next fifteen nations combined, and there are troops from the United States in many countries throughout the world. Our gross national economy exceeds that of the three countries that follow us, and our nation's voice most often prevails as decisions are made concerning trade, humanitarian assistance, and the allocation of global wealth. This dominant status is unlikely to change in our lifetimes." "Within our country, ultimate decisions are made through democratic means, which tend to moderate radical or ill-advised proposals. Constrained and inspired by historic constitutional principles, our nation has endeavored for more than two hundred years to follow the now almost universal ideals of freedom, human rights, and justice for all." "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." "The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them." "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." "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. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity." "If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you." "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom." "If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement." "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries." "The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation." "The government ought to stay out of the prayer business." "Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent." "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." |
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