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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
26Th U.S. President
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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
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An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.
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I am a part of everything that I have read.
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A President has a great chance his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.
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