101 Quotes by J. William Fulbright

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.

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.

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 in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

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

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

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

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.

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