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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Its not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. – Jimmy Carter

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Failure
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The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedys deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or 79. – Jimmy Carter

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Health
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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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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. – Abraham Lincoln

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Presidents Day

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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