A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.
A Government as Good as Its People (1977)
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Jimmy Carter quotes
1924-2024 ยท Presidents and world leaders
39th U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize winner known for humanitarian work.
5 quotes, 5 traced to where Carter said or wrote them.
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
Inaugural Address (1977)
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2002)
We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.
Nobel Peace Prize lecture (2002)
Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished.
Statement on the death of Rosalynn Carter (2023)