Jimmy Carter actually said...

Ours is a nation that prevails, that triumphs over diversity, and which almost invariably benefits and makes progress when the world is faced with sometimes disconcerting and uncontrollable change.

Context

Department of State Remarks at the Swearing In of Edmund S. Muskie as Secretary

05/07/1980

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