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The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so—we believe—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)

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