Eric Sevareid
Eric Sevareid
Arnold Eric Sevareidwas a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow's Boys". He was the first to report the fall of Paris when it was captured by the Germans during World War II. Traveling into Burma during World War II, his aircraft was shot down and he was rescued from behind enemy lines by a search and rescue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth26 November 1912
CityVelva, ND
CountryUnited States of America
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.
The major cause of problems are solutions
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.
It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.