WILLY BRANDT

Germany has an interest in détente—for general European and national reasons. Here we are in accord not only with our allies … but with almost everyone. Here we join with the nations and governments of the uncommitted world. Here interests we have in common with the Communist-governed states also come to light in spite of some polemics.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

This is a beautiful day after a long voyage, but we are only at a way station. We are not at the end of our way.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

The security of Western Europe rests ultimately on the trustworthiness of the American commitment.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

[Richard M.] Nixon did not receive on the same wavelength I was at pains to broadcast on.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Every era demands its own answers, and if one wants to do good, one must be prepared for them.

[Richard M.] Nixon did not receive on the same wavelength I was at pains to broadcast on.

No one is free from the history he has inherited.

This is a beautiful day after a long voyage, but we are only at a way station. We are not at the end of our way.

Germany has an interest in détente—for general European and national reasons. Here we are in accord not only with our allies … but with almost everyone. Here we join with the nations and governments of the uncommitted world. Here interests we have in common with the Communist-governed states also come to light in spite of some polemics.

The security of Western Europe rests ultimately on the trustworthiness of the American commitment.

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.