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Fame is morally neutral.
Good night, and good luck.
A satellite has no conscience.
To be credible we must be truthful.
All babies look like Winston Churchill.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
We are to a large extent an imitative society.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.
A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
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.
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
The Wright brothers' first flight was not reported in a single newspaper because every rookie reporter knew what could and couldn't be done.
The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
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.
The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.
The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.
I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.