Danh ngôn của Helmut Kohl (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Peace must be more than the absence of war.
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
My childhood ended in 1942. I was 12, and for the next three years, I lived under incessant bombings. It was a life of constant fear.
People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.
In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.
We Germans have learned from history. We are a peace-loving, freedom-loving people. There is only one place for us in the world: at the side of the free nations.
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.