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39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975
United States · 1924–2024
Served as President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Founded the Carter Center in 1982, which works on election monitoring, conflict mediation and disease eradication. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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Recorded · On the billboard
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
I thought often during my years in the White House of an admonition that we received in our small school in Plains, Georgia, from a beloved teacher, Miss Julia Coleman. She often said: "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2002 source
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