“It is not the critic who counts nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion and the triumph of achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. You have never lived until you've almost died. For those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Citizenship in a Republic”
23rd April 1910, the Sorbone, Paris
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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