Quotes from J. William Fulbright

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

No alliance can long survive if each member bases its policies on the assumption that its partners will honor their commitments only so long as they find it easy and convenient to do so.

The mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations.

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.