UN General Assembly
1963

119. Uruguay therefore invokes its history, the expression of its great past, and would imbue with a modern dynamism the minds of men who, like Artigas, gave us our country and whose ideals should not remain static. We declare here today to the representatives of virtually all nations of the world that our great ambition for the future is to achieve a lasting happiness based on freedom, for that is the only way in which nature may be overcome and subordinated to those aims which are the symbols of peace: work, order, law and, above all, justice for the 2,000 million human beings who hunger and thirst for justice but who also suffer from hunger and thirst.