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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 am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.
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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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