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Edward R. Murrow Quotes
Edward R. Murrow Quotes
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men …
We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibility. As a nation, we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the [government official] have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn’t create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it successfully. Cassius was right: ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
- Edward R. Murrow, /See It Now/, March 9, 1954.
