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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. — Edward R. Murrow

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. — Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. — Edward R. Murrow

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. — Edward R. Murrow

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. — Edward R. Murrow

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

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. — Edward R. Murrow

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

To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow

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. — Edward R. Murrow

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

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

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow. — David Strathairn

It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience. — Edward R. Murrow

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

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. — Edward R. Murrow

We are to a large extent an imitative society. — Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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. — Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow

We cannot make good news out of bad practice. — Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow

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

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

Fame is morally neutral. — Edward R. Murrow