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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. - Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Attribution: Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. II, p. 121, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Sardis Birchard (October 19, 1861).

Categories: Civil War, President, West Point

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