Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-6] of 6 Jimmy Carter quotesJimmy Carter QuotesJimmy Carter America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy Carter If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.~ Jimmy Carter We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.~ Jimmy Carter The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.~ Jimmy Carter The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.~ Jimmy Carter In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.~ Jimmy Carter Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print