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Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena"

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"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."

Add us as a preferred source President Theodore Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent | Fine Art/GettyImages Over the course of his time in the public eye, Theodore Roosevelt gave a number of moving, influential, highly quotable public addresses—but none of them has the legacy of the speech he delivered in Paris on April 23, 1910, which would become one of the most widely quoted orations of his career. --> Over the course of his time in the public eye, Theodore Roosevelt gave a number of moving, influential, highly quotable public addresses—but none of them has the legacy of the speech he delivered

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