Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.
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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.
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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.
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