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• ‟ It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

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• ‟ We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

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• ‟ I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

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• ‟ The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

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• ‟ What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

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• ‟ Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

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