J. William Fulbright Quotes About Democracy

• 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.

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• 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."

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

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

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  1966 Speech to the US Senate, 21 Apr.

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