09/20/1950
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"To suggest the contrary is to slander our institutions and defame our ideals and our aspirations."
"There are those who claim that this treaty is an aggressive act on the part of the nations which ring the North Atlantic."
"What we are about to do here is a neighborly act."
"The pact will be a positive, not a negative, influence for peace, and its influence will be felt not only in the area it specifically covers but throughout the world."