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Power Quotes by J. William Fulbright
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
- Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.…
- We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
- We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
- 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…
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