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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.
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