UN General Assembly
1964

88. I have no intention of wearing you with this dismal story of suppression, incompetence and dissipation, but ours is a lesson for many of our brothers in the younger countries, and I say this with all humility. Autocratic rule is incapable of building new States. It pretends that it is the fittest for our societies, but this is not so. It brings in its first flush a facade of national unity, but as time goes by we discover that our diverse traditions are drifting apart. Instead of voluntarily, and willingly, pulling together and living happily side by side, they tend to recoil and grow hostile to each other. The individual, who is usually promised the moon, shrinks smaller and smaller. Under autocratic regimes, men's faculties are paralysed because they are not used.