(USA TODAY by David Jackson)-Theodore Roosevelt, who has inspired almost every president who followed him, has entered a new realm of influence.
A Miley Cyrus tattoo. The singer and actress has had one of TR's most famous quotes stamped on her left forearm:
"So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Sounds like Miley may be firing back at some of her critics.
The quote is from one of Roosevelt's post-presidential speeches, delivered in Paris during a 1910 global tour.
Formally entitled "Citizenship in a Republic," it is better known as "The Man in the Arena" speech.
Cited by many a politician and most famously Richard Nixon, the day he resigned the presidency in 1974 -- it includes these seemingly immortal lines:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds cold have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends hijmself in a worhty cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with thos cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "