If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We a… - Edward R. Murrow

...if what I say is responsible, I alone am responsible for the saying of it...

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful. Stonewall Jackson, who knew something about the use of weapons, is reported to have said, "When war comes, you must draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." The trouble with television is that it is rusting in the scabbard during a battle for survival.

A nation of sheep will always beget a government of wolves.