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J. William Fulbright
American
Politician
Born:
Apr 9
,
1905
Died:
Feb 9
,
1995
Law
Men
People
Power
Society
World
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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.
J. William Fulbright
Dignity
Culture
People
World
Differences
Respected
Recognized
Possible
Feared
Rather
Only
Outlook
Condemned
Than
Essential
Human
Common
Human Dignity
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Bond
Appreciated
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
Politics
Faith
Democracy
Dissent
Act
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.
J. William Fulbright
World
Example
Power
Appropriate
Respects
Magnanimity
Empathy
Itself
Intelligent
America
Size
Which
Act
Many
Many Respects
Bring
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright
Citizen
Country
Tribute
Criticizes
Implied
His
Paying
Who
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
J. William Fulbright
Thoughts
World
Think
Changing
Complex
Dare
Possibilities
Rapidly
Must
Unthinkable
Learn
Options
Confront
Us
Explore
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
Fool
Power
Every
Damn
Minutes
About
Seem
Any
Want
Thing
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
J. William Fulbright
History
People
Thought
Long
Security
Having
Another
Course
Greater
Understand
Submarine
Than
Much
Your
Who
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.
J. William Fulbright
Society
Remake
Outsiders
Force
Accomplished
Task
Trying
Any
Cannot
Which
Available
Means
Vietnamese
Certainly
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. William Fulbright
World
Men
Inevitable
Perceive
Divergence
Between
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. William Fulbright
Power
Omnipotence
Virtue
Tends
Take
Also
Itself
Confuses
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
Obligations
Legal
Law
Behavior
Reciprocal
Those
Insofar
Observed
Provides
Stability
Order
Predicting
Us
Means
International
International Law
Whom
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright
War
People
Feeling
President
Way
Say
Would
Johnson
Pursued
Never
Had
He
Like
Sure
Did
Bangkok
Any
Japan
Vietnam
Acted
Ignorant
Why
Ever
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
J. William Fulbright
Soul
Too
High
Price
Empire
America
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
J. William Fulbright
Fear
Think
Society
Rightly
Impact
Economic
Traditional
Cultural
Survive
American
Cannot
Vietnamese
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
Our
Indeed
Menace
Failures
Excuses
Because
Greatest
Been
Provided
Soviet
Done
Soviet Union
Us
Much
Union
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
J. William Fulbright
Law
International Relations
Relations
Both
Within
Stability
Essential
Order
International
Foundation
Societies
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. William Fulbright
Men
Cruelty
Purposes
Noble
Unspeakable
Name
Another
Committed
Against
Acts
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
J. William Fulbright
Freedom
People
World
Free
Example
Free Society
Own
Living
Society
Other
Other Countries
Our
Resources
Proper
Only
Excessive
Countries
Involvement
Also
Affairs
Off
Denying
Fullest
Assets
Enjoying
Enjoyment
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
J. William Fulbright
Me
Power
Our
Say
Weapons
Logistics
Some
Seem
Delight
Question
Impressive
Efficiency
Officials
Cannot
Certainly
Things
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
J. William Fulbright
Conservative
Law
Power
International Relations
Relations
States
Vital
Expanding
Upholding
Interest
International
Reign
United
United States
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