J. William Fuller's quote about Patriotism

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

—J. William Fulbright

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J. W. FULBRIGHT, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently delivered the Christian A. Herter Lectures at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. This article is adapted from the first of the lectures.

The Higher Patriotism

TO CRITICIZE one's country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing. "This," said Albert Camus in one of his Letters to a German Friend, is "what separated us from you; we made demands. You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth...

“To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.”

J. William Fulbright (Senator)