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Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace.

— Benito Juárez

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Source: As quoted in Global History, Volume Two : The Industrial Revolution to the Age of Globalization (2008) by Jerry Weiner, Mark Willner, George A. Hero and Bonnie-Anne Briggs, p. 175
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