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I am proud
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to come to this city
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as the guest of your distinguished Mayor,
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who has symbolized throughout the world
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the fighting spirit of West Berlin.
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And I am proud…
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(Loud greetings)
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And I'm proud to visit
the Federal Republic
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with your distinguished Chancellor,
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who for so many years
has committed Germany
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to democracy and freedom and progress,
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and to come here
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in the company of my fellow
American, General Clay,
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(Loud greetings) (Applause)
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who has been in this city
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during its great moments of crisis
and will come again if ever needed.
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(Loud greetings)
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(Applause)
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Two thousand years ago
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the proudest boast was
"civis Romanus sum."
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Today, in the world of freedom,
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the proudest boast
is "Ich bin ein Berliner."
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(Loud greetings) (Applause)
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I…
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I…
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I appreciate...
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I appreciate
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my interpreter translating my German!
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(Loud greetings)
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(Applause)
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There are many people in the world
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who really don't understand,
or say they don't,
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what is the great issue between
the free world and the Communist world.
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Let them come to Berlin!
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(Loud greetings)
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(Applause)
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There are some who say
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that communism is the wave of the future.
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Let them come to Berlin!
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(Loud greetings) (Applause)
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And there are some who say
in Europe and elsewhere
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we can work with the Communists.
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Let them come to Berlin!
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(Loud greetings) (Applause)
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And there are even a few who say
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that it's true that communism
is an evil system,
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but it permits us to make
economic progress.
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Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen!
Let them come to Berlin!
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(Very loud greetings)
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Freedom has many difficulties
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and democracy is not perfect,
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but we have never had to put
a wall up to keep our people in,
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to prevent them from leaving us.
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(Loud cheering)
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(Applause)
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I want to say,
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on behalf of my countrymen,
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who live many miles away
on the other side of the Atlantic,
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who are far distant from you,
that they take the greatest pride
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that they have been able
to share with you, even from a distance,
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the story of the last 18 years.
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I know of no town, no city,
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that has been besieged for 18 years
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that still lives with the vitality
and the force,
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and the hope and the determination
of the city of West Berlin.
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(Very loud cheerings)
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(Applause)
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While the wall
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is the most obvious
and vivid demonstration
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of the failures of the Communist system,
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for all the world to see,
we take no satisfaction in it,
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for it is, as your Mayor has said,
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an offense not only against history
but an offense against humanity,
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separating families,
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dividing husbands and wives
and brothers and sisters,
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and dividing a people
who wish to be joined together.
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(Loud cheerings)
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(Applause)
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What is true of this city
is true of Germany—
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real, lasting peace in Europe
can never be assured
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as long as one German out of four
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is denied the elementary
right of free men,
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and that is to make a free choice.
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In 18 years of peace and good faith,
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this generation of Germans
has earned the right to be free,
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including the right
to unite their families
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and their nation in lasting peace,
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with good will to all people.
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(Applause) (Cheerings)
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You live in a defended island of freedom,
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but your life is part of the main.
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So let me ask you, as I close,
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to lift your eyes beyond
the dangers of today,
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to the hopes of tomorrow,
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beyond the freedom
merely of this city of Berlin,
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or your country of Germany,
to the advance of freedom everywhere,
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beyond the wall
to the day of peace with justice,
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beyond yourselves
and ourselves to all mankind.
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Freedom is indivisible,
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and when one man is enslaved,
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all are not free.
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When all are free,
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then we can look forward to that day
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when this city will be joined as one
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and this country, and this great Continent
of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe.
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When that day finally comes, as it will,
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the people of West Berlin
can take sober satisfaction
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in the fact that they were
in the front lines for almost two decades.
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(Applause)
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People: Bravo! (Cheers) (Applause)
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All free men,
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wherever they may live,
are citizens of Berlin,
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and, therefore,
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as a free man,
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I take pride in the words
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"Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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(Greatest greetings) (Applause)
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People: Ken-ne-dy! Ken-ne-dy!
