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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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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.
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It is well to remember that freedom through the press is the thing that comes first. Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
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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.
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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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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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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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Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.
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The obscure we always see sooner or later the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
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Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.
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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
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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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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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