UN General Assembly
1964

31. The realities of Haitian life demonstrate beyond any doubt the usefulness and necessity of perpetuating the personal power of Duvalier, whose slightest actions and initiatives have been so felicitous as to transform the nature of the relationship between the ruler and the ruled into deep respect for authority. That authority, which by its firmness tempered by solicitude inspires the confidence peoples must feel in great promises, is sustained by the high regard in which it is held by a people who have long been threatened by the chronic evils of under development and have all too often been oppressed by the vestiges of an anachronistic neo-colonialism.