"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…"
Ngô Đình Diệm

January 1, 1970

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"Address to the US Congress" (1957)

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