English subtitles for clip: File:Jfk berlin address high.ogg

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Thank you!

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Ladies...

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Voices: Ken-ne-dy! Ken-ne-dy!

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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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(Very 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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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

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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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Aber laßt auch sie nach Berlin kommen.
[But let them come to Berlin, too.]

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(Greetings)

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(Applause)

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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,

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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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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)

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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)