Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
From Gustav Heinemann
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
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.
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
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