Quotes by Theodore White

Theodore White

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’m somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

Believe

Running

Water

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

Christian

Democracies Have

Democracy

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Election

Past

Voters

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Ghetto

Men

Reality

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Destroyed

Style

Television

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

Events

History

Memories

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago – a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Cities

Two

Years

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

Chef

Kitchen

May

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

Business

Money

Planets

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Father

Nannies

White

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Believe

Bravery

Bullying

Business

Chef

Christian

Cities

Country

Courage

Decision

Democracies Have

Democracy

Destroyed

Editors

Election

Events

Father

Freedom

Friendship

Generosity

Ghetto

Giving

Grace

Greek

History

Kind

Kitchen

May

Memories

Men

Money

Nannies

Nerd

Party

Passion

Past

Planets

President

Reality

Running

Style

Television

Thanksgiving

Two

Voters

Water

Weather

White

Years

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Quotes by Theodore White

Theodore White

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’m somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago – a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

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