Edward R. Murrow Quotes

"Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right." This was Murrow`s standard postcard reply to any and all critics who wrote to him.

(About television) The instrument can teach, it can illuminate. Yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it is merely lights and wires in a box.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn`t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

After last night`s debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

A satellite has no conscience.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.