Gustav Heinemann

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.

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.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.