"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.“


-Rutherford B. Hayes

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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

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