Jimmy Carter Speeches & Audio Books

The former president and best selling author of Sources of Strength and The Virtues of Aging writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community...

President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The Carter Center, he has studied the complex and interrelated issues of the region's conflicts and has been actively involved in reconciling them.

Below are complete audio recordings of some of Jimmy Carter's more important speeches.

"The Greatest Speeches of All-Time Volume III" is the third in a collection of highlights of the most important and well-known speeches of modern times.

Grammy Award-Winner for Best Spoken Word Album! In this powerful reflection, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment. He considers how we may find it in our own lives.

For the last 25 years, President Carter has taught the adult Bible study at his church in Plains, where several hundred visitors join him each Sunday to understand the wisdom of the Bible and apply it to their lives.

Carter recounts his adventures over the last twenty-five years, including founding the Carter Center and putting it and himself to the task of public, useful good works.

Filled with the loving memories of his parents, childhood friends, and neighbors, Carter's beautiful, touching recollection explores his Depression-era youth outside the small town of Plains, Georgia.

"The test of any government is not how popular it is with the powerful, but how honestly and fairly it deals with those who must depend on it."

A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president.