UN General Assembly
1950

123. Of course we have had our failures, but there have also been many successes. We cannot hope for the one without the other in a world which as yet appears to perceive but dimly the importance of sincere co-operation and the need for an understanding of each other’s problems. All of us in the General Assembly have declared our belief in the fundamental principles of the Charter, and by the measure of our determination to uphold those principles we will either stand or fall. If we fall now, I do not think that an organization such as ours will rise again in our time.