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• The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as…
• Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
• I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather…
• Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
• Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
• Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves,…
• One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
• The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.
• Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
• I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party…
• Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is…
• We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state,…

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