UN General Assembly
1951

24. The United Nations does not exist merely to maintain peace, but above all, as the Secretary-General has so aptly remarked, to create it. Despite all our differences of opinion at this time, we have an Organization able to gather the representatives of sixty countries around a table. We owe this to the wisdom of those who, although at the cost of certain compromises, established the almost total representation of the world by laying down the basic principles of the Charter. Let us endeavour, so far as we can, to draw from that wisdom the lessons inherent in it.