5 Edward R. Murrow Quotes on Language

Edward R. Murrow quotes on language

5. He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

8. 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.

57. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

58. Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

59. Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.