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Edward R. Murrow

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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.


— Edward R. Murrow


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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.


— Edward R. Murrow


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


— Edward R. Murrow


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Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.


— Edward R. Murrow


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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.


— Edward R. Murrow


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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.


— Edward R. Murrow


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People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.


— Edward R. Murrow


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Good night, and good luck.


— Edward R. Murrow


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To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.


— Edward R. Murrow


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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.


— Edward R. Murrow


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About Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow Quotes




Did you know about Edward R. Murrow?

As hostilities expanded Murrow expanded CBS News in London into what Harrison Salisbury described as "the finest news staff anybody had ever put together in Europe". He married Janet Huntington Brewster on March 12 1935. Murrow and Friendly paid for their own newspaper advertisement for the program; they were not allowed to use CBS's money for the publicity campaign or even use the CBS logo.

He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada. Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid Ed Bliss and Alexander Kendrick considered Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures noting his honesty and integrity in delivering the news.

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