Edward R. Murrow Short Quotes

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

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

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Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

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

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

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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.

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... if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...

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After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

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In the area of politics our major policy obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

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

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This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.

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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

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Of Winston Churchill:
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

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