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President Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) US President (1977-1981), Nobel laureate [James Earl Carter, Jr.]

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. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

¶ "Warm Hearts and Cool Hands," speech (1976)

Quoted in A Government as Good as Its People, J. Carter (1977)

Added 11-Oct-2007 | Last update 11-Oct-2007
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On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

¶ (Attributed)

Added 17-Oct-2005 | Last update 28-Feb-2007
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

¶ Speech to Future Farmers of America, Kansas City (9 Nov 1978)

Added 26-Mar-2008 | Last update 26-Mar-2008
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

¶ White House ceremony on the 30th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights (6 Dec 1978)

Added 11-Apr-2008 | Last update 08-Apr-2008
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