Quote by Jimmy Carter
We cant equate democracy with Christianity because the largest dem

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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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. – Jimmy Carter

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Experience
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. – Jimmy Carter

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Patriotism
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We must make it clear that a platform of I hate gay men and women is not a way to become president of the United States. – Jimmy Carter

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Men
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didnt have a cent. – Mike Tyson

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In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. Theres a real sense of freedom now. Its a good time to finish, I think. As much as Im going to miss it Im ready to move on and do different things. – Rupert Grint

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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Freedom

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. – Charles Horton Cooley

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. – Voltaire

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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finance

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured its time to really look at the future and not at the past. – Kalpana Chawla

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