J. William Fulbright Quotes About Peace

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

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  J. William Fulbright

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

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• "The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."

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  J. William Fulbright

  1986

• International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace-eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education.

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  J. William Fulbright

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• It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.

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  J. William Fulbright

  Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703., June 29, 1961.

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• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

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  J. William Fulbright

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