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.
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
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.
Education is a slow moving but powerful force.
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.
I’m sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he’d ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.