UN General Assembly
1964

124. This zeal for peace was no sudden inspiration; like all nations, we had to serve our apprenticeship of peace and it was not an easy task. But we finally discovered that peace must be achieved through conciliation and a spirit of compromise, for history has shown that what might be called "total victory" does not exist. Peace is the result "par excellence" of political compromise. As our Secretary-General', U Thant, said when he took office: "No difficult problem can be solved to the complete satisfaction of all sides. We live in an imperfect world, and have to accept imperfect solutions, which become more acceptable as we learn to live with them and as time passes by."