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

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

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

- 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

Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.

- Gustav Heinemann

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

- 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