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Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Best Quotes by Edward R. Murrow (Top 10)

  1. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
  2. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
  3. We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
  4. No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
  5. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
  6. 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.
  7. The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
  8. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

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