UN General Assembly
1962

117. We would speak in greater detail to demonstrate our total attachment to right principles and purposes, were it not that our aspirations, as a nation without up-to-date weapons, are so Platonic. We leave it to others, like the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom who has ably done so, to enumerate, recount and speculate. Speaking from a position of strength based on massive armaments, he shrewdly said [1134th meeting] that it was unheroic and degrading that in the twentieth-century men should depend for their existence on the balance of terror, but that we must accept that it was so and must not disturb the balance of power while striving to base peace on interdependence. 118. If there is no respect for basic security, if it has not been possible to establish these firm foundations, and if those who lead the forces of civilization in the face of tremendous dangers have found no respite, let us not harass them with our importunity; let us all, as our strength allows, tread the path of sacrifice.