Edward R. Murrow Quotes

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Only a fool is not afraid.

At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

Better to die than to live in fear.

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

Life begins where fear ends.

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

You're nervous because you're afraid of the outcome. Accept the worst outcome... You'll be free & fight like you're able to.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...