UN General Assembly
1964

127. All through the years we have been taught again and again that most men value some things more than life itself. And no one has reminded us more eloquently and resolutely that it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees than the noble spirit that left us the other day in London — Sir Winston Churchill. 128. As long as there are patriots, aggression will be met with resistance —whatever the cost. And the cost rises ever higher with the revolution in weaponry. At Marathon 200 Athenians lost their lives. At Stalingrad 300,000 invaders lost their lives. 129. There, precisely, is the difficulty we are in. Now, in our day, the end result of aggression and defence is Armageddon — for man has stolen the Promethean fire. Yet resistance to aggression is no less inevitable in the second half of the twentieth century than it was 2,500 years ago.