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; ra…

- Gustav Heinemann

Disarmament requires trust.

- Gustav Heinemann

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails…

- Gustav Heinemann

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

- 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 …

- Gustav Heinemann

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

- Gustav Heinemann

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

- Gustav Heinemann

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

- Gustav Heinemann