“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. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the anti-democrat in general.”
From Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism on February 2, 1954
From Fulbright's speech in the Senate on McCarthyism on February 2, 1954
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