![]() ![]() Quoted by Richard Nixon in his resignation speech.Before the 1995 World Cup, Nelson Mandela gave a copy of the passage to Francois Pienaar, captain of the South African rugby team-and they won, defeating New Zealand.Roosevelt in the ad, but he can be found in the credits as one of the actors after the voiceover artist) A TV commercial selling Cadillac’s (which does not seem to attribute the words to Mr.Brene Brown in her TED talk Why your critics aren’t the ones who count and her book Dare to Lead.Imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery. Perhaps we can also include allusion, quoting, mis-quoting, outright plagiarising, replicating and paraphrasing. By this standard, the Man in the Arena is much loved indeed. Here are some of the many re-applications of Roosevelt’s words: The Man in the Arena is the passage where Roosevelt unleashes a forceful style of rhetoric – to cap off a rational argument and stir the emotions of those he seeks to persuade. ![]() Theodore Roosevelt manages to strike a chord, marking a moment in history, and speaking with such power and eloquence that his words have been used and re-used many times, in various circumstances since they were originally uttered on 23 April 1910, in Sorbonne, France. The Man in the Arena is just such a piece. This is the belief that has powered the Speech a Week series. There are many fine speeches that have captured the attention of the audience, inspired action and reverberated through the years. But few speeches punch quite so much power into every word as this one. ![]()
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