"The Asian people – long humiliated in their national aspirations, their human dignity injured – are no longer, as in the past, resigned and passive. They are impatient. They are eager to reduce their immense technical backwardness. They clamour for a rapid and immediate economic development, the only sound base for democratic political independence… It is in this debate – unfortunately influenced in many countries by the false but seductive promises of fascism and communism – that the efforts being made to safeguard liberal democracy through aid given by the industrial countries of the West, play a vital role. For the honour of humanity, the United States has made the most important contribution to this end…"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
"Address to the US Congress" (1957)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_Di%E1%BB%87m
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ngô Đình Diệm
14 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ngô Đình Diệm →
Related Quotes
"Since the end of the last war, when Asia broke her chains, the conscience of the world has at last awakened to a prof…"
"We affirm that the sole legitimate object of the state is to protect the fundamental rights of human beings to existe…"
"We affirm that democracy is neither material happiness nor the supremacy of numbers. Democracy is essentially a perma…"
"The Republic of Vietnam, the youngest republic in Asia, soon will be two years old. Our Republic was born among great…"
"It is a fundamental truth that laws do not cover all the aspects of life, and a Constitution does not create a democr…"
"Now for more than a century, abnormal political conditions have corrupted the sense of civic responsibility in many a…"
"In fact, if the sense of civic duty derives its supreme justification from the ethical principles of the respect for …"
"Even in a healthy environment, the sense of civic responsibility must further be nourished by a careful education of …"
"My dear compatriots, democracy exists only where a concrete democratic experience exists. And democratic life is in s…"
"Thousands of our people would have sacrificed their lives for nothing if, in independence, we do not attain the unity…"