UN General Assembly
1959

5. The greatest honour of my public life now falls to me, namely that of speaking for my country as the head of the Haitian delegation to this fourteenth session of the great family of the United Nations. Any emotional note in my voice may be attributed either to the atmosphere and circumstances, which may make a speaker nervous on a "great day", or to a sense of personal inadequacy in speaking at this rostrum from which the greatest politicians of the world have addressed such distinguished audiences. 6. There may be times when it is fitting to practise the philosopher's policy of silence, but there are certainly other times when to refrain from expressing an opinion would be a kind of cowardice not in keeping with the moral responsibilities; we have undertaken in promising to "maintain international peace and security".