"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"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 (1924-2024)
"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"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."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)
"America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars."
—Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)