The Best Edward Murrow quotes

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices–just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. — 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. — Edward R. Murrow

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

Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation. — Edward R. Murrow

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow

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. — Edward R. Murrow

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

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. — Edward R. Murrow

Fame is morally neutral. — Edward R. Murrow

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There’s nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I’ve done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom–it’s gone. — Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. — Edward R. Murrow

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. — 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. — Edward R. Murrow

A thing of orchestrated hell–a terrible symphony of light and flame. — Edward R. Murrow

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

To be persuasive, We must be believable, To be believable, We must be credible, To be credible, We must be truthful. — Edward R. Murrow

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

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. — Edward R. Murrow

We will not be driven by fear … if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men. — Edward R. Murrow

I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry’s program planners believe. — Edward R. Murrow

A satellite has no conscience. — Edward R. Murrow

Most truth’s are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. — Edward R. Murrow

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts … the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. — Edward R. Murrow

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man. — Edward R. Murrow

All babies look like Winston Churchill. — Edward R. Murrow