Edward R. Murrow

One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

ifficulty 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.
- All from Edward R. Murrow, 1908 - 1965

About: It was on 9 Mar 1954 that Edward R. Murrow attacked Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Communist witch hunt on the CBS news program "See It Now".