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J. William Fulbright

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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.


— J. William Fulbright


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


— J. William Fulbright


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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.


— J. William Fulbright


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


— J. William Fulbright


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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.


— J. William Fulbright


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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.


— J. William Fulbright


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The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.


— J. William Fulbright


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


— J. William Fulbright


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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.


— J. William Fulbright


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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.


— J. William Fulbright


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for distribution to organizations seeking to influence public opinion in favor of Israel. Fulbright was a lecturer in law at the University of Arkansas from 1936 until 1939. S.

President Bill Clinton cited him as a mentor. Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee and later became known for his opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.

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