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Ehren wir die Freiheit. Arbeiten wir für den Frieden. Halten wir uns an das Recht. Dienen wir unseren inneren Maßstäben der Gerechtigkeit."

[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]


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RICHARD ENGEL The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into wo...
RICHARD ENGEL I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill ov...
RICHARD BRANSON Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort ...
RICHARD LOUV Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial ...
RICHARD CORLISS The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discour...
RICHARD DAWKINS My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
LITTLE RICHARD The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is ...
RICHARD SAUNDERS For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature canno...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of...
RICHARD ARMITAGE My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about lon...
RICHARD SCHIFF Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.
RICHARD NEY Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of...
RICHARD POWERS Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
RICHARD FRANCK It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is soc...
RICHARD DAWKINS Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness a...
RICHARD HALLOWAY Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
RICHARD PRYOR I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel b...
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the bol...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a ...
RICHARD PRESTON Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish ...
RICHARD SELZER This is a place where you really are what you achieve in Houston, and that's a tremendous boon t...
RICHARD KINDER And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
RICHARD OWEN Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som...
RICHARD POWERS I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min...
RICHARD CORLISS A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ...
RICHARD CORLISS