Quotes from Edward R. Murrow

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.

Fame is morally neutral.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

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.