Jimmy Carter Quotes The first of October will mark Jimmy Carter's 84th birthday

• The first of October will mark Jimmy Carter's 84th birthday and it's time to honor him with some Jimmy Carter quotes. Let these quotes not only kick off Jimmy's birthday celebration, but let them also remind us of a time when the people seemed to be a bit wiser and the world hadn't gone so astray. Whether you're a republican or a democrat, these ten quotes will have you admitting that Jimmy has been right about more than a few things.
• "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."
• "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America."
• "The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."
• "Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power."

                                                                                                                                     Jimmy Carter