Edward R. Murrow Quotes - Page 2

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• Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Failure, History

  Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, January 20, 1961.

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• Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Sorry, Knowing Who You Are

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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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Age, Due Process Of Law

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Ideas, Information, Importance

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Butterfly, Differences, Novices

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• The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Brother, Done, Rookies

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Son, Men, Telling The Truth

  "Edward R. Murrow and the Time of His Time" by Joseph Wershba, www.evesmag.com.

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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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Life, Learning, Firsts

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• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Practice, Government, Literature

  Life, May 07, 1965.

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• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Two, Radio, Our Society

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Taken, White

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Radio News, Care, Commodity

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• 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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Real, Want, Firsts

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• The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Littles, Obscure, Obvious

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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.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Writing, Men, Due Process Of Law

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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

  Edward R. Murrow

  Pills, Television, Produce

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Real, Talking, Feet

  "Prime time; the life of Edward R. Murrow". Book by Alexander Kendrick, 1969.

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• Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Careers, Energy

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• The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Art, Cutting, Political

  Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Men, Order

  Edward R. Murrow's Address at London Guildhall, October 19, 1959.

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• I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Imbalance, Study, Absence

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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