J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

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
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
J. William Fulbright

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

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
J. William Fulbright

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
J. William Fulbright

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

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
J. William Fulbright

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

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
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
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
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
J. William Fulbright

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
J. William Fulbright

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
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
J. William Fulbright

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
J. William Fulbright

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.