UN General Assembly
1946

By the circumstances of our birth as a free and independent State, we are committed to the aims and purposes of the United Nations. The Philippine Republic has been the first beneficiary of the triumph of democracy. It has been established under a constitution which renounces war as an instrument of national policy. It is the child of the marriage of the East and the West, heir to the traditional ways and aspirations of the one and to the social and political institutions of the other. Our country may thus be regarded as a bridge between two worlds, among the first of many that must be erected to make them one.