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Eisenhower: “The Magna Charta, our Declaration of Independence, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man were certainly…”

On the recordNovember 17, 1953
The Magna Charta, our Declaration of Independence, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man were certainly nothing else than the attempt on the part of men to state that in their government there would be recognized the principle of the equality of man, the dignity of man.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Luncheon Meeting of the General Board of the National Council of Churches.

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