Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Saying my President “right or wrong” is like saying my driver “drunk or sober.”

My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart..

I wish to be no less than national in all the positions I may take.

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

I'm an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is a professional soldier that works in the pay of a foreign army. I'm an American working for America.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.

No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you're not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Is the Muslim who is an American citizen ---... Is he really an American citizen who loves America, or does he belong to a fifth column, with loyalties that lie elsewhere, and he is only using America temporarily to accumulate wealth?

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

La Follette is the Grand American neo-Copperhead ... at the moment loyally serving one country—Germany.