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J William Fulbright Quotes
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. - J William Fulbright Quotes
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive. - J William Fulbright Quotes
Im sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if hed ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In a democracy dissent is an act if faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. - J William Fulbright Quotes
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. - J William Fulbright Quotes
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations. - J William Fulbright Quotes
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. - J William Fulbright Quotes
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do Gods work. - J William Fulbright Quotes
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The price of empire is Americas soul, and that price is too high. - J William Fulbright Quotes
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. - J William Fulbright Quotes
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. - J William Fulbright Quotes
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues. - J William Fulbright Quotes
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable. - J William Fulbright Quotes
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. - J William Fulbright Quotes
To be a statesman, you must first get elected. - J William Fulbright Quotes
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders. - J William Fulbright Quotes
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. - J William Fulbright Quotes
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless. - J William Fulbright Quotes
We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless. - J William Fulbright Quotes
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