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Jimmy Carter: “Freedom is not a temple that is completed when the last stone is in place, but a living thing that each generation must…”

On the recordJune 30, 1977
Freedom is not a temple that is completed when the last stone is in place, but a living thing that each generation must create anew.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Statement on the Observance of Independence Day, 1977

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