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

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.

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.

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.

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