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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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"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 time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe."
"Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda."
"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."
"Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions."
"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."
"Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work."
"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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