Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize it, "to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace — and in time to take an honorable place among the members of the United Nations.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.