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

- Gustav Heinemann

Disarmament requires 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

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

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

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 disarmamen…

- Gustav Heinemann

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

- 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.

- Gustav Heinemann

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.

- Gustav Heinemann