Best J. William Fulbright Quotes
- Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations. Accommodation
- As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. Conservative
- Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. Confuses
- There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it. Divergence
- Education is a slow moving but powerful force Education
- The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has… Able
- 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… Bay
- 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… American
- Education is a slow-moving but powerful force. It may not be fast enough or strong enough to save us from catastrophe, but it is the… Available
- Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations Communication
- 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… Achieve
- 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… Agreement
- 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… Abuse
- The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization,… Advancement
- 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… Acted
- When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder… Advantage
- 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… Accomplished
- 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… Been
- 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… Assumes
- Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous… Aboard
- Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay… All
- The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated… Been
- The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support… All
- 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… All
- 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… Act