• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

    Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
    Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5