What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace..

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffer….

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors..

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back ho….

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, althou….

The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascert….

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggl….

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of….

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-bei….

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies..

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were ess….

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were n….

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life..

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to e….

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the m….

I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the view….

Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize it, "to apply their ….

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau..

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death..

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany..

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them..