The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

- Eric Sevareid

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 mi…

- Eric Sevareid

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

- Eric Sevareid

Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.

- Eric Sevareid

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

- Eric Sevareid

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

- Eric Sevareid

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 someth…

- Eric Sevareid

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

- Eric Sevareid

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

- Eric Sevareid