Quote by Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter

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I dont claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday Im home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter. – Jimmy Carter

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Experience
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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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. – Jimmy Carter

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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. – John F. Kennedy

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Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. – Vachel Lindsay

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. – James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

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We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

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