Edward R. Murrow Quotes
American - Journalist April 25, 1908 - April 27, 1965

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

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

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

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. Murrow

Good night, and good luck.
Edward R. Murrow