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Edward R. Murrow, a renowned American journalist, was born on April 25, 1908, and passed away on April 27, 1965. He is best known for his exceptional contributions to broadcasting, particularly his reporting on Nazi Germany during World War II.

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“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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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“A satellite has no conscience.”

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“Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.”

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“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

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“The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.”

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“I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.”

“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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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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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“It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.”

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“The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.”

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“I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.”

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“Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.”

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

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“Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”

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“Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.”

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“I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.”

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“I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.”

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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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“To be credible we must be truthful.”

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“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”

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“Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

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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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“All babies look like Winston Churchill.”

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“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.”

Men I Can Teach Son Telling The Truth My Son 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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Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“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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Author:Edward R. Murrow

About the Author

Born: April 25, 1908
Died: April 27, 1965
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 78

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