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 Read Quote
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. J. William Fulbright Read Quote
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 God’s work. J. William Fulbright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact. J. William Fulbright Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. J. William Fulbright Read Quote
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life. J. William Fulbright Read Quote
