Willy Brandt Quotes

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I put it down on paper again in the summer of this year: 'Berlin will live, and the Wall will fall.'

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If I'm selling to you, I speak your language; if I'm buying dann mussen Sie Deutsch sprechen [then you must speak German].

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We want to take a chance on more democracy.

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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

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We are not chosen by God, but by the voters—therefore we seek dialogue with all those who put effort into this democracy.

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Even though two states in Germany exist, they are not foreign countries to each other—their relations with each other can only be of a special kind.

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Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

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Those who adhere to the past won't be able to cope with the future.

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In our modern world, mass hunger, economic stagnation, environmental catastrophe, political instability, and terrorism cannot be quarantined within national borders.

Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt

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Born: December 18, 1913

Died: October 8, 1992 (aged 78)

Bio: Willy Brandt was a German statesman and politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987 and chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.

Known for:

Arms and hunger (1986)
The Ordeal of Coexistence (1963)
My Life in Politics (1992)
Links und frei. Mein Weg 1930-1950 (1982)

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