Edward R. Murrow Quotes

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• A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Sheep, Government, Political

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• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Home, Men, Age

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Complaining, Circus, Tvs

  "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

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• American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Lying, Simple

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Liberty, Literature

  "See It Now" (CBS), March 7, 1954.

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• 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

  Truth, Communication, Literature

  On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York, October 28, 1964.

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• We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Hysteria, Confusion, Despair

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Law, Remember, Accusation

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Views, Opposites, Two Sides

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", 2005.

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• Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mistake, Problem Solving, Obligation

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Confused, Humorous, Profound

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Mean Girls, Wisdom, Voice

  Edward R. Murrow's RTNDA Convention Speech, www.rtdna.org. October 15, 1958.

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• We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Luck, Media, Different

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Work, Philosophy

  "Mad about Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities". Book by Christopher Jargodzki, 2001.

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• To be credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truthful, Being Truthful, Credible

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Writing, Men

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Peace, War, Teaching

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• This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Education, Light, Inspire

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Anger, Sides, Burned

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• I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Book, Organization, People

  Speech to his staff before the broadcast of the "See It Now" program on Joe McCarthy on March 09, 1954. "Edward R. Murrow And the Time Of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.silurians.org.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Age, Due Process Of Law

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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