John Leech, Marius in his Old Age.
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Mentir pour son avantage à soi-même est imposture, mentir pour l’avantage d’autrui est fraude, mentir pour nuire est calomnie, c’est la pire espèce de mensonge […]
美國總統羅斯福、土耳其總統İsmet İnönü、英國首相邱吉爾,開羅,1943年12月5日。Photo: U.S. Army photograph.
What we demand in this war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in; and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world, as against force and selfish aggression.
The Purposes of the United Nations are […] to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace […]