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

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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. more

“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.”

Ifs Men World Home Age Remember Driven Doctrine Fearful Defenders Dig Deep Good Night And Good Luck

Author: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 not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.”

Doe Ends Country Facts Understanding Voice Greater Degrees Bars Possessed

Author: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. 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.”

Want Feels Firsts Wells Real Reason Remember Presses Newspapers Journalism

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.”

Persons Real Lasts Three Talking Feet International Contact Links Crucial

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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.”

Art Real Problem Lasts Faces Moving Three Five Feet Information Policy Conversation Art Is Miles Guidance Face To Face

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“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.”

Knows Enough Differences Scared Butterfly Speakers Formation Novices

Author:Edward R. Murrow

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

Produce Television Endless Pills Itching

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.”

Ifs Thinking Should Bigs Names China Flying Japan Beckham China And Japan

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