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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
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Greensboro
North Carolina
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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.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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