We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.