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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
• We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of…
• German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
• Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and…
• The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find…
• That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the…
• What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
• I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with…
• I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they…
• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause…
• It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a…
• Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by…

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