J. William Fulbright Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the antidemocrat in general.

  J. William Fulbright

  Liars, Men, Indulge In

  J. William Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism (February 2, 1954), as quoted in "Congressional Record", Volume 100 (p. 1105), 1954.

• In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

  J. William Fulbright

  Faith, Freedom, Medicine

  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

• We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.

  J. William Fulbright

  Party, Practice, Two

• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

  J. William Fulbright

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

• 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."

  J. William Fulbright

  School, Atheism, Democracy

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.35, Random House

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