Leroy Edgar Burney

Leroy Edgar Burney (31 December 1906 - 31 July 1998) was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the eighth Surgeon General of the United States from 1956 to 1961.

Famous quotes containing the words edgar and/or burney:

    “Come Vitus, are we men, or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures? You say your soul was killed, and that you have been dead all these years. And what of me? Did we not both die here in Marmaros fifteen years ago? Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?”
    —Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)

    “Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)