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Quotes from Address to the US Congress — Ngô Đình Diệm

1901–1963 Vietnam

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We affirm that the sole legitimate object of the state is to protect the fundamental rights of human beings to existence [and] to the free development of their intellectual, moral, and spiritual life.

Address to the US Congress (1957)

We affirm that democracy is neither material happiness nor the supremacy of numbers. Democracy is essentially a permanent effort to find the right political means in order to assure to all citizens the right of free development and of maximum initiative, responsibility and spiritual life…

Address to the US Congress (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ngô Đình Diệm (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.