"I realise now that in comparison to him, I am a small man. He was the greatest statesman of our century."
— Dag Hammarskjöld

January 1, 1970

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John F. Kennedy, during a meeting with an associate of Hammarskjöld, as quoted by Sture Linnér, Dag Hammarskjöld Lecture (15 October 2007)