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How euy it has become for us, to hide behind alibis. The rich man’s son is a failure because he has too much money, the poor man’s son because he hasn’feenough, and those in-between because of one reason or another. Individually no one must be blamed. He is what he is because of some “system” or “condition” of which be is the product and victim.. 1 ~
.This nation attained its eminence because the individuals therein were willing to assume responsibility for their own acta In the ratio to which’we refuse ■to accept that aesponsibility ab»7f • become a nation of dishonor. -
You and I, and those 90 young men of West Point will continue to contribute to the delinquency' of this nation so long as we^choose to regard ourselves the weak “viem.,..
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The time is here for all of na to stand erect, admit our errors, and take our medicine as men—free men, • fully responsible for our acta. ' »
Unlesa we do, we shall cravenly desecrate a heritage of honor the like with which few peoples have been so singularly blessed.
More than that, through unwillingness to assume responsibility for our individual acta, w*. shall forge another link in the chain that may eventually enslave us and all free men—M.C.
^. ..- ’J’ ;• sg JO? - “Politics is the art at looking % 1 'tor trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it wronf'i0< IT. applying the wrong MM* 0iy.^mr amrnt Mm . * ‘ ' “ '' - ......... A ' V ^ ..
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