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I am proud to come to this
city as the guest of your distinguished Maya,

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who has symbolized throughout the world the
fighting spirit of West Berlin. And

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I am proud, and I am
proud to visit the Federal Republic with your

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distinguished Chancellor, who for so many
years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom

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and progress, And to come here
in the company of my fellow American General

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Clay, who who has been in
this city during its great moments of crisis,

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and will come again if ever needed. Two thousand years ago, two

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thousand years ago, the proudest boast
was key wis Romanus. Some today in

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the world of freedom, the proudest
boast is ish Bean. I'm bee leader

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Lesson. There are many people in
the world who really don't understand, or

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say they don't what is the great
issue between the free world and the communist

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world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say, there

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are some who say that communism is
the wave of the future, Let them

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come to Berlin. And there are
some who say, in Europe and elsewhere

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we can work with the communists.
Let them come to Berlin. And there

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are even a few who say that
It is true that communism is an evil

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system, but it permits us to
make economic progress. Last ye, not

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Berlin in common. Let them come. Freedom as many difficulties, and democracy

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is not perfect, but we have
never had to put a wall up to

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keep our people in to prevent them
from leaving us. I want to say

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on behalf of my countrymen, who
lived many miles away on the other side

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of the Atlantic, who are far
distant from you, that they take the

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greatest pride that they have been able
to share with you, even from a

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distance, the story of the last
eighteen years. I know of no town,

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no city that has been besieged for
eighteen years, that still lives with

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the vitality and the force and the
hope and the determination of the city of

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West Berlin. While the worl all
is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of

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the failures of the communist system for
all the world to see, we take

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no satisfaction in it, for it
is, as your Mayor has said,

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an offense not only against history,
but an offense against humanity, separating families,

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dividing husbands and wives and brothers and
sisters, and dividing up people who

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wish to be joined together. What
is what is true of this city is

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true of Germany. Real lasting peace
in Europe can never be assured as long

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as one German out of four is
denied the elementary right of free men,

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and that is to make a free
choice. In eighteen years of peace and

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good faith, this generation of Germans
has earned the right to be free,

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including the right to unite their families
and their nation in lasting peace, with

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goodwill to all people. You live
in a defended island of freedom, but

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your life is part of the main. So let me ask you, as

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I close, to lift your eyes
beyond the dangers of today, to the

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hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom
merely of this city of Berlin or your

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country of Germany, to the advance
of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall,

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to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves, to all

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mankind. Freedom is indivisible, and
when one man is enslaved, all are

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not free. When all are free, then we look and look forward to

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that day when this city will be
joined as one, and this country and

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this great continent of Europe in a
peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day

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finally comes, as it will.
The people of West Berlin can take sober

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satisfaction in the fact that they were
in the front lines for almost two decades.

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All, all free men, wherever
they may live, are citizens of

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Berlin, and therefore, as a
free man, I take pride in the

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words ish Ben I'm bolina