101 Quotes by J. William Fulbright
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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.
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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.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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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.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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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.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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