Tag: Edward R. Murrow

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

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The politician is … trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

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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.

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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we … remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

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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.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Edward R. Murrow