Edward R. Murrow

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

— Edward R. Murrow

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

— Edward R. Murrow

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

— Edward R. Murrow

A satellite has no conscience.

— Edward R. Murrow

Fame is morally neutral.

— Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

— Edward R. Murrow

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

— Edward R. Murrow

To be credible we must be truthful.

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Edward R. Murrow

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

— Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

— Edward R. Murrow

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

— Edward R. Murrow

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

— Edward R. Murrow

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

— Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Edward R. Murrow

If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it…

— Edward R. Murrow

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”

— Edward R. Murrow

Senator McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to…

— Edward R. Murrow

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

— Edward R. Murrow

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

— Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

— Edward R. Murrow

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he…

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Edward R. Murrow

The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does…

— Edward R. Murrow

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if…

— Edward R. Murrow

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

— Edward R. Murrow

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the…

— Edward R. Murrow

Your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon…

— Edward R. Murrow

In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when…

— Edward R. Murrow

Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge…

— Edward R. Murrow

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number…

— Edward R. Murrow

I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which…

— Edward R. Murrow

I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.…

— Edward R. Murrow

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off…

— Edward R. Murrow

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if…

— Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence…

— Edward R. Murrow

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes…

— Edward R. Murrow

“I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history…

— Edward R. Murrow

Good night, and good luck.

— Edward R. Murrow