Theodore Roosevelt quote: If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...

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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