James W. Fulbright said:

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.

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.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

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.

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

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

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