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Nature—pitiless in a pitiless universe—is certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands.

— J. William Fulbright

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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

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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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The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

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