UN General Assembly
1962

48. The record of accomplishment is formidable; but the movement of history is more pre-emptory that ever, and today's challenges of peace and of progress are therefore more urgent than ever. To meet these challenges, we need not just a strong but a still stronger United Nations. The most important general issue before the General Assembly is to get on with the business of steadily improving our Organization so that it can deal ever more energetically, more efficiently and more promptly with the dangers to peace and the obstacles to progress. 49. This is the essence, this is the heart, this is the day-to-day stuff of our duty in this Assembly as we see it: to build mightier mansions, to keep strengthening the United Nations. The worth and the loyalty of the Members will be tested by this standard: do their actions, do their proposals strengthen or weaken our Organization? 50. Strengthening the United Nations involves questions both of structure and of Strategy.