45 Quotes by Eric Sevareid

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

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."

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.