UN General Assembly
1953

60. In my opening speech at the Assembly last year [380th meeting] I said that I disagreed with those who were wont to describe our efforts in Korea as a failure. True, we had not progressed as far or as fast as many of us hoped, but our primary objective, to repel aggression, had been achieved. I pause here to emphasize that when we speak of aggression we mean military aggression, not political or ideological aggression. Someone has rightly and aptly said that you cannot kill an idea with bullets, and I think it as well, therefore, to make it plain that we took up arms in Korea to resist military aggression. Political or ideological aggression, unaccompanied by military aggression, needs counter-measures of a different kind.