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[Peace must be] founded on truth, built according to justice, vivified and integrated by charity, and put into practice in freedom.

— Pope John XXIII

[Pacem esse] dicimus in veritate positam, ad iustitiae praecepta constitutam, caritate altam et expletam, libertate postremo auspice effectam.

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Pacem in Terris (11 April 1963), ¶ 167

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