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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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
Age: 60 †
Born: 1858
Born: October 27
Died: 1919
Died: January 6
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