It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

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.

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

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.

Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.