Edward R. Murrow Quotes

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Good night, and good luck.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers..

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

A satellite has no conscience.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

To be credible we must be truthful.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices
just recognize them.

Fame is morally neutral.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.