Edward R. Murrow Quotes

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

Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Good night, and good luck.

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.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

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.

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

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.

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.

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