UN General Assembly
1957

15. It comes as a shock to find one of the most venerable and respected figures in the world joining in that chorus and calling upon us to abandon the system of voting in this Assembly and to replace it by a system of weighted voting in which the raised hands of some delegations would count and weigh more than those of others. There are few countries in which it has not at some time or another been suggested, in scarcely veiled aristocratic tones, that the votes of some citizens are worth more than those of their humbler fellows. Generally, such ideas do not prosper, but in the few cases in which they have prevailed, the result has been the dictatorship of one class, party, man or race.