J. William Fulbright Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
J. William Fulbright quotes and sayings page 2 (politician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 31 we have.
“In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.”
“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 seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.”
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