"No college in America can match the record of the Institute in training the citizen-soldier."

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VirginiaUniversities and colleges in VirginiaMilitary academies of the United States
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John Otho Marsh, Jr., 14th United States Secretary of the Army (1981-1989), in 1982, as quoted by Beverly M. Read, "Sculpture at VMI", A Crowd of Honorable Youths: Historical Essays on the First 150 Years of the Virginia Military Institute (Lexington: VMI Sequicentennial Committee, 1988) by Thomas W. Davis (editor), p. 150