Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. — Edward R. Murrow Buchenwald Copy Share Image
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow Air power Copy Share Image
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” — Edward R. Murrow Great man Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best… — Edward R. Murrow American tradition Copy Share Image
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business. — Edward R. Murrow Business Copy Share Image
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already… — Edward R. Murrow Circus Copy Share Image
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. — Edward R. Murrow Little bit Copy Share Image
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine,… — Edward R. Murrow Age Copy Share Image
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 Communism Copy Share Image
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. — Edward R. Murrow Mistake Copy Share Image
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 Allergies Copy Share Image
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better… — Edward R. Murrow Believe Copy Share Image
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 Catching Copy Share Image
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 Achieve Copy Share Image
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air… — Edward R. Murrow Air Copy Share Image
“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end… — Edward R. Murrow Around the world Copy Share Image
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out… — Edward R. Murrow Anger Copy Share Image
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 Bars Copy Share Image
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 Christ Copy Share Image
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. — Edward R. Murrow Obscure Copy Share Image
“Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.” — Edward R. Murrow Truth Copy Share Image
The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained… — Edward R. Murrow Butterfly Copy Share Image
Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or… — Edward R. Murrow Ability Copy Share Image