Quotes from Theodore White

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

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

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.

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.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.