Jimmy Carter Quotes
Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities -- not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
~ Jimmy Carter
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.
~ Jimmy Carter
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
~ Jimmy Carter
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
~ Jimmy Carter
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
~ Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.
~ Jimmy Carter
In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere. -
~ Jimmy Carter
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
~ Jimmy Carter
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
~ Jimmy Carter
The drug culture has shaped at least one major chance since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
~ Jimmy Carter
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.
~ Jimmy Carter
If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.
~ Jimmy Carter