American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are… - Edward R. Murrow

To be persuasive we must be believable;
to be believable we must be creditable;
to be credible we must be truthful.

We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

We went to the hospital; it was full. The doctor told me that two hundred had died the day before. I asked the cause of death; he shrugged and said, "Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live."

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.