What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

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

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

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

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.