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. 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. MurrowI simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.
Edward R. MurrowThe 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. MurrowWe 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 ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow