Edward R. Murrow Quotations

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. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

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

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

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

One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

If radio news is to be regarded as a commodity, only acceptable when saleable, then I don't care what you call it - I say it isn't news.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.