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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
— Edward R. Murrow
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
Good night, and good luck.
— Edward R. Murrow
All babies look like Winston Churchill.
— 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
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
— Edward R. Murrow
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
— 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
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
A satellite has no conscience.
— Edward R. Murrow
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
— 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
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
— Edward R. Murrow
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
— Edward R. Murrow
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
— Edward R. Murrow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
— 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
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
— Edward R. Murrow
Fame is morally neutral.
— 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
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
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
— David Strathairn
We are to a large extent an imitative society.
— Edward R. Murrow
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices
just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow
just recognize them. — 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
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
To be credible we must be truthful.
— Edward R. Murrow
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
— Edward R. Murrow
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
— Edward R. Murrow