UN General Assembly
1957

141. Do not, I beg you, encourage a whole sector of world public opinion to believe that the annual session of the United Nations only encourages the troublemakers and thwarts any attempt at finding a constructive solution. 142. I know how much prestige the concepts of freedom, independence and self-determination rightly enjoy in our Organization. They even inspire enthusiasm in those who in their own countries have never been able to give them form and make them a living reality. 143. In this respect France has better examples to show than many of those who criticize it. But France has never sought to separate the freedom of peoples from that of individuals, nor to isolate artificially political independence from economic independence. France believes that disorder and poverty do not further human progress, but only the designs of those who use them as a means to world domination. There are free men who accept the obligations of society; there are slaves who claim they are independent.