UN General Assembly
1954

46. Costa Rica has embarked on a great experiment. The 1948 revolution freed our country of communists and the enemies of our ancient democracy. Ours was the first country of America to learn at first hand what it means to lose temporarily but completely the great moral and political values on which Western Christian democracy is based. Consequently, the Costa Rican citizen today understands better than many others the meaning of the struggle in which the world is engaged, and we, who represent the Costa Rican people, feel bound to give our firm and wholehearted support to the great countries that have become the champions of a way of life in which we believe and which today we are better than ever able to appreciate.