J. Fulbright Quotations

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent.

It's the one activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I still wouldn't count on it.

It was never intended by the Founding Fathers that the President of the United States should be a ventriloquist's dummy sitting on the lap of Congress.

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.