Edward R. Murrow Quotes

• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Freedom, War

• The people you have seen have the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. They do not have the strength to influence legislation. Maybe you do.

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  A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Nation

• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in History

  Tags in Difficulty

• 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

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  Tags in World

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Prisoner

• Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Situation, Understanding

• A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom – it’s gone.

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in Reporter, Concerned

• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in Ourselves, Practice

• Fame is morally neutral.

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in Fame, Neutral

• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in Self

• 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

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  Tags in Communication, Speed

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

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in People, Conversation

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

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  Tags in Persuasive, Truthful
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  The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Longer

• If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Dissent

  Tags in Patriotism

• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Elections

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Truth

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudice

Edward R. Murrow (25)

Birth:	25th April, 1908
Death:	27th April, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Radio Personality

About

Edward R. Murrow was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, USA. He was an American journalist and radio personality. He first came to prominence with a series of radio broadcasts for the news division of The Columbia Broadcasting System during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1930.

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