“ Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust. Gustav Heinemann
“ War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to… Gustav Heinemann
“ We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. Gustav Heinemann
“ The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. Gustav Heinemann