UN General Assembly
1959

100. Whenever I come to this rostrum, from which we speak to the world, I cannot but recall that hour in human history when the United Nations came into being, as the embodiment of the loftiest aspirations of mankind and the fruit of a resounding victory of right over might. Armies were then returning from the field, their ranks depleted by thousands of casualties, and all the cities of the world were thronged with seething multitudes home from the trenches, the barbed-wire entanglements and the air-raid shelters and hoping for a new and happier life with peace, freedom and justice. 101. All those hopes found their purest expression fourteen years ago in the creation of the United Nations.