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Quotation from Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena") by Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”
Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 9 (African and European Addresses (1910))
The opening of the arena passage, turning from the cynic to the critic.
Citation: "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." — Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena"), Paragraph 9 (African and European Addresses (1910)). (id citizenship-in-a-republic-q3)
Portrait: 1910-04-26 - Théodore-Roosevelt regardant voler Dubonnet à Issy, Agence Rol, Public domain.
