J. William Fulbright Quotes

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• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men…
• Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since…
• There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint…
• The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it…
• Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs…
• 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…
• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility…
• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of…
• Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the…
• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
• ....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for…
• The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in…
• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
• To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a…

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