Jimmy Carter quotes

Jimmy Carter is a renowned American politician, philanthropist, and Nobel laureate. Serving as the 39th President of the United States, Carter's humble background and commitment to social justice shaped his notable initiatives, including the Panama Canal Treaty and the Camp David Accords. Beyond his presidency, Carter established the Carter Center, dedicated to advancing human rights worldwide. His tireless activism, post-presidential diplomacy, and efforts in eradicating diseases have earned him global admiration. Discover more about this influential figure in American history at Jimmy Carter's official website.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

- Jimmy Carter

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

- 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

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

- Jimmy Carter

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

- Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

- Jimmy Carter

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

- Jimmy Carter

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

- Jimmy Carter

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

- Jimmy Carter

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

- Jimmy Carter

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

- Jimmy Carter

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

- 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

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

- Jimmy Carter

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

- Jimmy Carter

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

- Jimmy Carter

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

- Jimmy Carter

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

You just have to have a simple faith.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

- Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

- Jimmy Carter

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

- Jimmy Carter