UN General Assembly
1950

74. Gone — now and I hope for all time — is the complacent belief which has benumbed us all in the years that the locust has just eaten, that so long as men will on the whole try to do well, we will be safe from armed aggression. Gone from our time, and until we can establish an effective system of collective security, is the short-sighted and superficial philosophy that because we won the last war there will never be another war, and that we can accordingly dispense with the forces we gathered together at such peril and at such expense in money and in human anguish. Surely we have learned the lesson that we must never again deprive ourselves of the means of defending our people and our way of life until we have in full and effective operation the organization for this purpose which has been the aim of mankind for centuries past.