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Character
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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.
-Theodore White
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Freedom
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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.
-Theodore White
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Journalism
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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.
-Theodore White, American Journalist
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Leadership
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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.
-Theodore White, The Making of the President, 1960
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Power
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
-Theodore White
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Quality
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
-Theodore White
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Voting
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
-Theodore White
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Water
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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
-Theodore White
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Books by and about Theodore White