Profound

"We stand here today no longer as rivals or adversaries. We are no longer foes but friends. Friends who work together so that the hopes of our societies, and indeed world, may be made manifest. We stand here today on this common ground, with the common goal of attaining common good; professing our faith in and allegiance to this new system of international order, this renewed, reformed and restructured international body of law. The past may have fractured the bonds of humankind which should have held us together as one people, but the present and the future will make those bonds evident as we work together on the great tasks which remain before us: tasks of promoting peace and security, tasks trumpeting human rights and sustainable growth, tasks heralding technological advancement and societal values, the task of working towards a 'Moral Progress' of sorts. We stand here today unquestioning about the origins of the values that we promote; whether they are God-given, man-made, or something entirely different. Here and now we dedicate ourselves to a movement greater than any movement undertaken in history. Its justification is a concept which each member of this body recognizes for its own reasons, and recognizes for the good of all humankind." - Daniel Edward Lewis