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We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.
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This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.
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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
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I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.
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Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.
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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.
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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
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I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.
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We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what born again means.
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Jesus is the Son of God, we have a chance for God's blessings, God's salvation through our faith in Jesus Christ and all of us are sinners who fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but through our faith that Jesus Christ, we can be saved.
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The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
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A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
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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.'
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The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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Jesus never mentions abortion. But I think that Jesus did care for the unborn child, I think that Jesus did care for people who were completely helpless, who depend on others for their life and livelihood. I just believe that this should be minimized if possible.
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