Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

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.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

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

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.

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.