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American
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Journalist
April 25
, 1908 -
April 27
, 1965
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Edward R. Murrow
Must
Persuasive
Truthful
Credible
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow
Situation
Confused
Understand
Who
Senator McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him.
Edward R. Murrow
Loyalty
Communism
More
Just
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Edward R. Murrow
Sorry
People
Feel
Naked
Good night, and good luck.
Edward R. Murrow
Good
Night
Good Night
Good Luck
Luck
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.
Edward R. Murrow
You
World
End
Voice
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow
Mistake
Our
Obligation
Solutions
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
Communication
True
Know
Speed
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
Edward R. Murrow
Color
More
Coming
Quiz
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow
Soul
Think
America
Must
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Edward R. Murrow
History
Never
Difficulty
Excuse
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
Edward R. Murrow
Good
Practice
Bad
News
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
Own
Everyone
Just
Experiences
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow
See
Obscure
Obvious
Seems
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
Nation
Whole
Unless
His
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.
Edward R. Murrow
Technology
End
Problem
Speed
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
Ideas
Information
Just
Us
A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow
Technology
Conscience
Satellite
I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.
Edward R. Murrow
Own
Information
Belief
Like
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
Respect
Men
Loved
Country
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
Tomorrow
Done
Yesterday
Always
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
History
Freedom
Home
Cannot
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. Murrow
Art
People
Conversation
Lost
Fame is morally neutral.
Edward R. Murrow
Fame
Neutral
Morally
If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an instrument of war is one of the most powerful weapons a nation possesses.
Edward R. Murrow
War
Home
Believe
You
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