The aims and ideals of our two nations are identical, their sympathy mutual and lasting, and the world has become assured of a vast neutral zone of peace, in which the controlling aspiration of either nation is individual human happiness.
Toast of President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico and President Taft's Response at the Custom House in Juarez, Mexico
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