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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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We cannot be both the worlds leading champion of peace and the worlds leading supplier of the weapons of war. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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Jimmy Carter
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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. – Jimmy Carter

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Running
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Jimmy Carter
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We cant equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs. – Jimmy Carter

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Freedom
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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. – Woodrow Wilson

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May it please Heaven that his example shall continue to serve as a beacon to our Republics in their darkest moments of doubt and adversity. – Jorge Ubico

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A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior – his monument is a country preserved. – C.S. Harrington

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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. – Grover Cleveland, 1905

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Every creature is a word of God. – Meister Eckhart

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