Sep 1, 2026 · Roosevelt
The man in the arena
There is no recording. The hour at the Sorbonne, and the life that made a few sentences expensive.
Named for the 1910 speech
It’s not the critic who counts.
The passage is famous. The lives that made it expensive are the work.
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Sagamore Hill · 1916–1918
Silent film of Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill. Captions: the 1910 Man in the Arena excerpt. No recording of the Paris speech exists. Library of Congress.
