Theodore H. White Quotes

• Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in America, Power

  Tags in Today, Communication

• Eisenhower has…a magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The epitaph on the Kennedy administration became Camelot – a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• He was almost a force of nature, like a slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke which soothsayers attempted to interpret.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Chafing in action when his nature yearned to act, conscious of indignities real and imagined, Johnson went through three years of slow burn.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Created, Television, Destroy

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Followed, Friends, Beginning, Since, Days

• 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.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Time, Moment, Find, Break, Sooner, Command, Men

• 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.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Dissent, Friendship

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Hero, Thinking, Courage

• With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Process, American, Logic

• If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Money

  Tags in However, Free, Earn, Planet, Your, Own, Make, Living

• Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Quality, Sense, Bravery, Live

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Write, Happen, Think, Anything, Mankind

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exhausted, Time, Lie

• If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Earn, Planet, Own, Make

• 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.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plane, Own, Like, Staff, Soldier

• 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.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservative, Liberal, Everybody, Person

• When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in America

  Tags in Like, Book

• When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Down, Nobody

• I class myself as a manual laborer.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Class, Myself

Theodore H. White (27)

Birth:	6th May, 1915
Death:	15th May, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Journalist, Novelist

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