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J William Fulbright Quotes
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![To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/782/781766/781766.webp "To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences Picture Quote #1")
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith (J William Fulbright Quotes)
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. It’s the only activity that gives me some hope that the human race won’t commit suicide, though I still wouldn’t count on it (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)
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)
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)
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact (J William Fulbright Quotes)
I’m sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he’d 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)
We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world (J William Fulbright Quotes)
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril (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)
To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences (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)
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. (J William Fulbright Quotes)
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. (J William Fulbright Quotes)
Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship. (J William Fulbright Quotes)
Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom. (J William Fulbright Quotes)
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations (J William Fulbright Quotes)
We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people. (J William Fulbright Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children (J William Fulbright Quotes)
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure (J William Fulbright Quotes)
We must care to think about the 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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
Education is a slow moving but powerful force (J William Fulbright Quotes)
To be a statesman, you must first get elected (J William Fulbright Quotes)
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