UN General Assembly
1957

29. There must, then, be some equality — not only in arms and armaments, not only in the form, let us say, of the atomic stalemate — but in the openness or closedness to outside influence and in the degree to which the Governments interfere or do not interfere in the thinking and acting of their citizens, before any real peaceful coexistence is possible. In short, without some measure of freedom both with respect to others and as between the government and the governed, there is no genuine peaceful coexistence. We thus see that freedom, as conditioning not only human dignity and human welfare, but the very possibility of peace itself, is the most dynamic principle that there is.