Edward Murrow Quotes (9 Quotes)

The movie is the achievement. To be part of that particular artistic achievement, it's great. That's the reward.

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear -- with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.

But Murrow could show you what McCarthy is doing, ... People saw it for the first time. It opened their eyes I'm against communism, but I'm against that, too.'

I'll split it with Fred. He just won't have Christmas presents.

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

After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

One For My Baby.