J. William Fulbright Government Quotations

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

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

With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.