The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Nobody has the intention of building a wall

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.