UN General Assembly
1961

"And we in this hall shall be remembered either as part of the generation that turned this planet into a flaming funeral pyre or as the generation that met its vow to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war5." [A/PV.1013, para. 94.] 25. When these words are spoken by the greatest Head of State of the free world, in the accents of a leader who is conscious of his heavy responsibilities but who has reflected deeply and will not retreat because the limits of what is possible have already been reached—when these words are spoken by a man who, in a gesture which should be remembered and which history will recall, made a voluntary step towards reconciliation in the search for peace by extending a fraternal hand to that other great leader, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, at Vienna, then, I confess, this means that we are truly, as I said just now ending at the crossroads.