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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.
Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
Journalist
Greensboro
North Carolina
Edward Roscoe Murrow
Egbert Roscoe Murrow
Egbert Murrow
Edward Murrow
Ed Murrow
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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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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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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We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
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To be credible we must be truthful.
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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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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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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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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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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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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People say conversation is a lost art how often I have wished it were.
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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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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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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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Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
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I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
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