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Edward R. Murrow — Portrait after a picture (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Edward R. Murrow

American broadcast journalist

1908–1965

8 quotes, most often on Truth & Lies.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
- Truth & Lies
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
Speech to his staff (1954)
- Courage
- Truth & Lies
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)
- Fear
- Responsibility
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.
Television broadcast, (31 December 1955)
- Experience
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.
On receiving the “Family of Man” Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York (28 October 1964)
- Technology
- Truth & Lies
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.
On receiving the “Family of Man” Award (1964)
- Computers
- Talking
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
See It Now (1954)
- Justice
- Patriotism
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.
See It Now (1954)
- Freedom

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