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Gustav Heinemann

Gustav Walter Heinemann (23 July 1899 – 7 July 1976) was a German politician. He was Mayor of the city of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1969 to 1974.

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Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

Existence, Longer, Peace, Possible

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

Become, Democracy, Element, Elements, Our Society

Disarmament requires trust.

Disarmament, Requires, Trust

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Action, Our Actions, Remain, Toward, Utopia, World

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

Authority, Everywhere, Face, Faces, Questions, Tradition

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

Firsts, Obligation, See, Serve, Thing

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

Difficult, Fatherland, Germany, Work

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

Hope, Insecurity, Mingle, Order, Resignation

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Noble, Open, Political, Tasks, 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.

Economic, Freedom, Individual, Power, Protected, States

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

Demand, Democracy, Goal, Prescribe, Youth

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.

Commanded, Correct, Earning Trust, Grant, Grants, Prepared

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Conversation, Europe, Secure, Time

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 prove ourselves.

Days, Men, Quintessential, School, War

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

German, Germany, Government, Party, Positions

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.

Appeal, Arms, Meeting, Powers, Race, Responsibility

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

Entails, Insofar, Reality, Secret, Simultaneously, Tiny