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Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

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I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

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Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

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Disarmament requires trust.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

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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 it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

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The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Politician

Born: July 23rd, 1899

Died: July 7th, 1976

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