Jimmy Carter1924–2024The quotations of
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
1924–2024
14 quotes, most often on America, War & Peace and Christianity. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense…human rights invented America.
Farewell Address (January 1981)Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace.
- Statement in an interview on SuperSoul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, as quoted in “Jimmy Carter Tells Oprah America Is No Longer a Democracy, Now an Oligarchy” by Jon Levine, in .Mic (September 24, 2015)
- Our Endangered Values (2005), Ch. 14 : Worshiping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War?, p. 147
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)- According to Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96 (November 26, 2023)
- Message on the Voyager Golden Record (June 1977)
- Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (4 May 1978)
The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
Farewell Address (January 1981)I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Gubernatorial Inaugural Address (12 January 1971)- Farewell Address (January 1981)
- Carter, J. (1977). A government as good as its people. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)
