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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."

"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions."

"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."

"Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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