Edward R. Murrow
American journalist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Edward R. Murrow, American journalist, speech, 1959
Posted on January 28, 2004 at 4:53 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.
—Edward R. Murrow, American journalist, on Winston Churchill, 1954
Posted on August 14, 2000 at 6:14 AM
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