UN General Assembly
1946

As things are, the reasonable use of the veto might be interpreted as a right which small States have conceded to the great Powers to enable them to postpone the study of any subject at a given moment. It might, however, equally be regarded as a tremendous threat to the right of dissent which all peoples and their representatives should retain, particularly the weakest, if the strong claim to exercise it indiscriminately as though arrogating to themselves an unforeseen tutelage over the opinion of the contemporary world. The right to discuss it in the General Assembly is, in our opinion, inseparable from the right of veto in the Security Council; but our view is that whereas all nations, great and small, are equal in this Assembly, their responsibility for the preservation of peace is not the same.