J. William Fulbright Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Pride, Sacrifice

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• 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.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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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

  Mean, Ideas, Assuming

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.16, Random House

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• 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.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Pigs, Giving

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• We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

  J. William Fulbright

  Organization, Would Be, Fundamentals

  "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1965.

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• "Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

  J. William Fulbright

  Government, Long, Way

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