25 Quotes by Hugh Downs

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it’s a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Hatred is never anything but fear – if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.

The most mature human insight comes from one’s introspection rather than from exterior research.

I’ve always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can’t agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don’t wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them.

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.