Edward R. Murrow
Journalist
1908-04-25
Quotes by Edward R. Murrow
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It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that 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. All of these things you know.
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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that 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. All of these things you know.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
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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.
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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.
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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All babies look like Winston Churchill.
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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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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.
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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.
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
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