The real dangers confronting us today have their origins in outmoded habits of thought, in the inertia of human nature, and in preoccupation with supposed national interests to the...
I am trying with everything I have to prevent another war.
The member nations have learned from bitter experience that regard for human rights is indispensable to political, economic, and social prog...
In November 1945, Prime Minister Attlee of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada, and I agreed that the problem of int...
Because the United Nations is the dynamic expression of what all the peoples of the world desire, because it sets up a standard of right and...
For these reasons, the United Nations has devoted much of its time to fostering respect for human rights.
This is the place where the nations of the world will work together to make that hope a reality.
The charter dearly shows our determination that international problems must be settled on a basis acceptable to the conscience of mankind.
The laying of this cornerstone is an act of faith--our unshakable faith that the United Nations will succeed in accomplishing the great task...
I don't want to see another war.
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the afor...