UN General Assembly
1962

But let us recall an observation made by Alfred Capus, a great French wit and a member of the school of humour which was typical of my young days, some time ago now, and which was called the "Boulevard", Alfred Capus said: "Everything always gets settled in the end — whether for, better or worse," If the United Nations were to adopt that way of thinking, it would be forgotten as completely as those same wits of that period of the nineteenth century. If the cynical motto of Alfred Capus were to become that of our Organization, we would have paved the way for its decline by ourselves forsaking and losing faith in its principles which impel us to overcome obstacles and above all to accomplish the often difficult task of restoring justice. That would be regrettable, because the United Nations has brought to all peoples a new ideal of life, an ideal which private diplomacy and purely international contacts did not provide.