James William Fulbright Quotes

James William Fulbright (31)

Birth:	9th April, 1905
Death:	9th February, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Senator

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• 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 and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

  James William Fulbright

• 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.

  James William Fulbright

• What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

  James William Fulbright

• 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 available to outsiders.

  James William Fulbright

• To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

  James William Fulbright

• There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

  James William Fulbright

• 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 as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  James William Fulbright

• 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 power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

  James William Fulbright

• 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.

  James William Fulbright

• The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  James William Fulbright

• The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.

  James William Fulbright

• The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

  James William Fulbright

• 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.

  James William Fulbright

• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  James William Fulbright

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  James William Fulbright

• 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.

  James William Fulbright

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  James William Fulbright

• 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.

  James William Fulbright

• In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

  James William Fulbright

• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  James William Fulbright