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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of 'peaceful coexistence'.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...
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It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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There is a kind of voodoo about American foreign policy. Certain drums have to be beaten regularly to ward off evil spirits.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.
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We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
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A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
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Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace — not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our own failures.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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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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The operation was wildly out of proportion to the threat. It would compromise our moral position in the world and make it impossible for us to protest treaty violations by the Communists.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
J. William Fulbright
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Born:
April 9, 1905
Died:
February 9, 1995
(aged 89)
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