Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there i

If there is not the war, you dont get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you dont 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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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. – Theodore Roosevelt

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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them. – Marilyn Monroe

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