Jimmy Carter

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”

“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith.”

“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”

“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”

“We can't be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained.”

“To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.”

“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”

“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”

“The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries.”

“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.”

“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America.”

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.”