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Let Us Build A Structure Of Peace In The World In Which The Weak Are As Safe As The Strong In Which Each Respects The Right Of The Other To Live By A Different System In Which Those Who Would Influence Others Will Do So By The Strength Of Their Ideas, And Not By The Force Of Their Arms. Let Us Accept That High Responsibility Not As A Burden, But Gladly Gladly Because The Chance To Build Such A Peace Is The Noblest Endeavor In Which A Nation Can Engage.

-Richard M. Nixon

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Let Us Build A Structure Of Peace In The World In Which The Weak Are As Safe As The Strong In Which Each Respects The Right Of The Other To Live By A Different System In Which Those Who Would Influence Others Will Do So By The Strength Of Their Ideas, And Not By The Force Of Their Arms. Let Us Accept That High Responsibility Not As A Burden, But Gladly Gladly Because The Chance To Build Such A Peace Is The Noblest Endeavor In Which A Nation Can Engage.

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