63 Quotes by Theodore White

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.

To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.

Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.

The world is beautiful if you are beautiful.

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.