J. William Fulbright Quotes

As A Conservative Power, The United States Has A Vital Interest In Upholding And Expanding The Reign Of Law In International Relations.

Law Is The Essential Foundation Of Stability And Order Both Within Societies And In International Relations.

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 Own Failures.

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 Citizens Of Big Counties-those, That Is, That Have The Status Of Being "powers" In The World-far From Being Self-centered Or Materialistic As They Are Commonly Credited With Being, The Ordinary Citizen And His Elected Representative All Too Often Turn Out To Be Romantics, Ready And Eager To Sacrifice Programs Of Health, Education And Welfare For The Power And Pride Of The Nation.

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 Favor.

This Is Regrettable Indeed For A Nation That Aspires To Teach Democracy To Other Nations, Because, As Burke Said: "example Is The School Of Mankind, And They Will Learn At No Other."

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.

We Would Be Deliberately Violating The Fundamental Obligations We Assumed In The Act Of Bogota Establishing The Organization Of American States.

The Israelis Object To An Imposed Settlement I Don't Know What They Mean By An Imposed Settlement. It's Quite Obvious, Without The All Out Support By The United States In Money And Weapons And So On The Israelis Couldn't Do What They've Been Doing. So We Bear A Very Great Share Of The Responsibility For The Continuation Of This...of This State Of Warfare.

During A Single Week Of July 1967, 164 Americans Were Killed And 2100 Were Wounded In City Riots In The United States. We Are Truly Fighting A Two-front War And Doing Badly In Both. Each War Feeds On The Other And, Although The President Assures Us That We Have The Resources To Win Both Wars, In Fact We Are Not Winning Either.

To Give [the Bay Of Pigs Invasion Of Cuba] Even Covert Support Is On A Par With The Hypocrisy And Cynicism For Which The United States Is Constantly Denouncing The Soviet Union In The United Nations And Elsewhere. This Point Will Not Be Lost On The Rest Of The World, Nor On Our Own Consciences.

Power Confuses Itself With Virtue And Tends Also To Take Itself For Omnipotence.