The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint students and scholars from many lands with America as it is-not as we wish it were or as we might wish foreigners to see it, but exactly as it is-which by my reckoning is an "image" of which no American need be ashamed.

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 price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

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.