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Your Quotes for 9 March 2006 - Edward R. Murrow

It was on this day in 1954 that Edward R. Murrow attacked Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Communist witch hunt on the CBS news program "See It Now". As it happens, Larkin and I took a couple of hours off from our packing last night to see the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck", which covers exactly this encounter. With that fresh in mind I couldn't resist choosing a few quotes from the man who, more than any other, defined broadcast journalism for a generation.

One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

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

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.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
     - All from Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965

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