Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. MurrowIn order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
Edward R. MurrowThe 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. MurrowSpeaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
Edward R. MurrowMost truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. MurrowWe 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. 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 โ not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow