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

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.

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

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

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.

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