Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Remarks to the Security Council on Vietnam and Laos
May 21, 1964

The doctrine of militant violence has been rendered null and void by the technology of modern weapons, and the vulnerability of a world in which the peace cannot be ruptured anywhere without endangering the peace everywhere. The people of Laos want to be left alone. The people of Vietnam want to be left alone. The people of Cambodia want to be left alone. When their neighbors decide to leave them alone, as they must, there will be no fighting in Southeast Asia.