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

Other quotes by Jimmy Carter

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter

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History
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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

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Happiness
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Ive used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, Ive still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. – Jimmy Carter

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environmental
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More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. – Charles Francis Adams

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Presidents Day

He was a common man expanded into giant proportions; well acquainted with the people, he placed his hand on the beating pulse of the nation, judged of its disease and was ready with a remedy. – Joshua Speed

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Presidents Day

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. – Dwight D. Eisenhower, address, Columbia University, 31 May 1954

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Presidents Day

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. – Anna Freud

Category:
Imagination

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because theyre not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates

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Time

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something through to somebody. – Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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communication

But it wasnt until I graduated from Texas A &amp M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. – Rick Perry

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Freedom