“We want to take a chance on more democracy.”

— Willy Brandt

Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen.
government policy statement on 28 October 1969, p. 1, bwbs.de http://www.bwbs.de/UserFiles/File/PDF/Regierungserklaerung691028.pdf (PDF file).

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Wir wollen mehr Demokratie wagen.

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Ganz ähnlich schon Gustav Heinemann am 1. Juli 1969 beim Amtsantritt als Bundespräsident: "wir stehen erst am Anfang der ersten wirklich freiheitlichen Periode unserer Geschichte. Freiheitliche Demokratie muss endlich das Lebenselement unserer Gesellschaft werden. […] Nicht weniger, sondern mehr Demokratie – das ist die Forderung, das ist das große Ziel, dem wir uns alle und zumal die Jugend zu verschreiben haben."
Regierungserklärung 28. Oktober 1969

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