Theodore White
Theodore White
Theodore Harold Whitewas an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.
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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
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Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.
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To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.
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It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.
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He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.
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Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.