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Kennedy΄s speech;" Ich bin ein Berinner"




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President John F. Kennedy - June 26, 1963
 
I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your …………………Mayor, who has symbolized ………………….the world the ...................spirit of West Berlin. And I am …………to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has ………Germany to ………..and freedom and…………, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city ……..its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever ………….
Two thousand years ago the ………….boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of…………., the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."
I ……………my interpreter ……………….my German!
 
There are many …………in the world who really don't……………., or say they don't, what is the ………….issue between the free world and the ………………world. Let them come to Berlin. There are ……….who say that communism is the …………….of the…………... Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in ……………and …………..we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And …………..are even a few who say that it is ………….that ………..is an evil system, but it …………..us to make economic………………... Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
 
Freedom has many …………..and democracy is not…………., but we have never had to put a ………up to keep our people in, to ……….them from ……….us. I want to say, on …………of my …………, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far ………..from you, that they take the greatest ……….that they have been able to …………..with you, even from a……………………, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no………….., no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still ………..with the vitality and the………., and the hope and the ……….. of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most ……….and …………demonstration of the ………of the Communist system, for all the ………….to see, we take no ………………..in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an …………. not only against history but an offense against …………………..separating………….., dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and …………..a people who wish to be joined together.
 
What is true of this ……….is true of Germany .--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as ………….as one German out of four is ………….the ……………..    right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this …………….of Germans has ………….  the right to be free, …………………..the right to …………..their families and their nation in …………….peace, with good will to all people. You live in a ……………….   island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the ………….of tomorrow, beyond the ……………….merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the …………………..of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with………….., beyond yourselves and ourselves to all ……………………..
 
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not……………….. When all are free, then we can look ……………..to that day when this city will be ……………………as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a ………………and …………………globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the ………………… lines for almost two decades.
All free men, ……………they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, ……………….., as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner."