Quotes by James Fulbright

• 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.
• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
• 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.