How much the sons and daugthers of your nation have done for the knowledge of mankind, to express humanity through the formulation of their inalienable rights!

The role that the idea of liberty, equality and fraternity plays in your culture is well known. At depth, they are Christian ideas.

Even as I say this, I am well aware that those who first formulated this ideal were not referring to man's alliance with eternal wisdom. But they wanted to act for the benefit of man.