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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