I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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This is probably the last time I will have the honour to stand at this podium to address the General Assembly. Born as the First World War came to a close and departing from public life as the world marks half-a-century of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I have reached that part of the long walk when the opportunity is granted, as it should be to all men and women, to retire to some rest and tranquillity in the village of my birth.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.
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