"There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me."
― Jimmy Carter
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War
― Jimmy Carter
More From Jimmy Carter
- "We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs."
- "When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace."
- "We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children."
More In War
- "A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure."― Charles Schumer
- "Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."― Ron Paul
- "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."― Douglas MacArthur