Quote by Jimmy Carter
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between

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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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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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. – Jimmy Carter

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Graduation
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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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The time has come – and must come – for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. – Gustav Heinemann

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. – Henry Miller

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It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East. – King Hussein I

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. – Ambrose Bierce

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