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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
— J. William Fulbright
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
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations
— J. William Fulbright
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
— J. William Fulbright
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
— J. William Fulbright
Education is a slow moving but powerful force
— J. William Fulbright
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
— J. William Fulbright
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
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
— J. William Fulbright
The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.
— J. William Fulbright
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
— J. William Fulbright
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.
— J. William Fulbright
Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.
— J. William Fulbright
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
— J. William Fulbright
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
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
— J. William Fulbright
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
— J. William Fulbright
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
— J. William Fulbright
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
— J. William Fulbright
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
— J. William Fulbright
A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
— J. William Fulbright
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
The case for government by elites is irrefutable.
— J. William Fulbright
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
— J. William Fulbright
It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.
— J. William Fulbright
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
— J. William Fulbright
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
— J. William Fulbright
Israel controls the United States Senate.
— J. William Fulbright
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
— J. William Fulbright
