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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

~J. William Fulbright

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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

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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.

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

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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.

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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

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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.

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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.

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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: April 9th, 1905

Died: February 9th, 1995

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