TR Quote I Love

[ss396]

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort

Comments

[jonox]

This is why Teddy Roosevelt was not a great man

[ss396]

I know it is an ironic quote. The quote doesn't make TR great. It's easy to look bank now and see his flaws, but he was a great president and remarkably progressive for his time. TR didn't think in black and white stupid word-encased box terms of doer-vs-critic but I think he did everything with a flourish and could communicate that way when it served him.

[jonox]

Maybe you could post the quote with the disclaimer:

this quote is ironic and cancels itself out. it has nothing to do with TR's greatness. this quote may be in stupid black and white word-encased box terms but TR thought nothing like he wrote.

that hypothetical disclaimer sounds more mature than the one i would write. which would be:

'alas, to the detriment and blasphemy of word-usage for all time to come immemorial, TR wrote nothing like he thought.'

[ss396]

It's not even about TR, nor is it meant to be....