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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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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."

"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."

"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."

"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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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."

"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."

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

"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."
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