Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Quote by Jimmy Carter

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I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go...

I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go...

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are...

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are...

You just have to have a simple faith.

You just have to have a simple faith.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy...

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy...

You just have to have a simple faith.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November...

I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November...

People with many opinions tend not to believe in anything.

People with many opinions tend not to believe in anything.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women'...

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women'...

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first...

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first...

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very...

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very...

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of...

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and...

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's...

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's...

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but...

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but...

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier...

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier...

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are...

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are...

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the...

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the...