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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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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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.
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In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
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Therefore, all of us are called upon to realize, with increasing effort, the demands of the Basic Law for extending social democracy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
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