UN General Assembly
1960

3. The story of the peoples of the world is not yet a closed book. This meeting of the United Nations, attended by eminent Heads of State and important leaders of so many countries, bears a resemblance to the Congress of Vienna? — to different music and with a different score — in so far as history changes, which is in fact very little — a wider, less exalted. Congress of Vienna, in which the new countries, whose flags now fly. before our doors, are rightly occupying their places. 4. What could be more heartening to Spaniards and to others who, like us, believe that human development is divinely ordained and who share our firm and unshakable faith in the equality of all men and in their capacity to develop the same faculties and to achieve the same goals in life, than to see so many nations seated here today in this world forum of the United Nations?