Ich bin ein Berliner I am a Berliner
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Ich bin ein Berliner I am a Berliner
John F. Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a
'Berliner'")
I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your
distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the
world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud
to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished
Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to
democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in
the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has
been in this city during its great moments of crisis and
will come again if ever needed.
Two thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, the
proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the
world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein
Berliner."
(I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.)
There are many people in the world who really don't
understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue
between the free world and the Communist world.
Let them come to Berlin.
There are some who say that communism is the wave of
the future.
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Let them come to Berlin.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere,
we can work with the Communists.
Let them come to Berlin.
And there are even a few who say that it is true that
communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make
economic progress.
Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to
Berlin.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not
perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep
our people in -- to prevent them from leaving us. I want
to say on behalf of my countrymen who live many miles
away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far
distant from you, that they take the greatest pride, that
they have been able to share with you, even from a
distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no
town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that
still lives with the vitality and the force, and the
hope, and the determination of the city of West Berlin.
While the wall is the most obvious and vivid
demonstration of the failures of the Communist system --
for all the world to see -- we take no satisfaction in
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it; for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not
only against history but an offense against humanity,
separating families, dividing husbands and wives and
brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to
be joined together.
What is true of this city is true of Germany: real,
lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as
one German out of four is denied the elementary right of
free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years
of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has
earned the right to be free, including the right to unite
their families and their nation in lasting peace, with
good will to all people.
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