Quotes by Theodore White - Page 1

I class myself as a manual laborer.
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Class
Laborers
Manuals
Laborer
Manual
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Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
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Power
Men
Dignity
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
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Politics
America
Binding
Political
Secular
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The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
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4th Of July
Dream
Adventure
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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
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Destroyed
Style
Television
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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Power
Communication
Mean
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When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
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Reporters
Typewriters
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When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
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Typewriter
Reporter
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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
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Thanksgiving
Generosity
Giving
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
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Politics
American Politics
Ends
Logic
Behind
Leaves
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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Freedom
Money
Democracy
Flood
Nerd
Pollution
Today
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Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
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Election
Past
Voters
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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Editors
Kind
Two
Copy
Correct
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The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
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Jobs
Come Up
Ideas
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The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
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Decision
President
Weather
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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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Aroused
Waited
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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Quality
Bravery
Grace
Greek
Mercy
Classical
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
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Business
Money
Planets
Living
Money Your Free
Free
Earn
Money Free Your
However
Planet
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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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Columbus
Court
Ferdinand
Telling
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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
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History
Luck
Years
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It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.
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Father
Nannies
White
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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War
Excitement
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Usa
Anywhere
War World American
Campaign
Match
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America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
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America
Europe
Hopeful
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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Art
American Politics
Mankind
Thinking
Writing
Anything Else
Noblest
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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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Wise
Men
Democracy
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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Exhausted
Late
Lying
Night
Rain
Best Time
Best Time Night
Corner
Lie
Street Corner
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Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.
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Long
Political
Too Late
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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Courage
Friendship
Smile
Bullying
Thinking Of You
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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
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History
Events
Memories
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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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Crowded
Disappear
Reporters
Rooms
Woodwork
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I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
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Chef
Kitchen
May
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
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Cities
Two
Years
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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.
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Christian
Democracies Have
Democracy
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With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
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Cat
Tickling
World
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The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.
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Country
Party
Passion
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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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Power
Moving
Responsibility
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
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Running
Believe
Conservative
Water
Somewhere
Believes
Downhill
Flows
Liberal
Uphill
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Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.
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Friends
Admirer
Devoted
Exertion
November
Admirers
Corps
Electoral
Followed
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When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
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Bus
Chorus
Composition
Flew
Lord
Night
Soldier
Song
Staff
Mr
Republicans
Frontier
Marching
Sang
Nixon
Plane
Soldiers
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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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Break Up
Smile
Men
Time
Authority
Break
Cease
Sooner Or Later
Voice
Bodies
Sooner
Intoxicating
Pack
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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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Men
China
Ghetto
Hills
Passing
Plastic
Reality
Suburbs
Adjust
Generally
Molded
Old Men
Shape
Vehicles
Villages
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The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.
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Party
Thinking
Tyrants
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