文档介绍:John F. Kennedy: "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a 'Berliner'")
I am proud e 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 mitted Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and e here in pany of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and e 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 munist world.
Let e to Berlin.
There are some who say munism is the wave of the future.
Let e to Berlin.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with munists.
Let e to Berlin.
And there are even a few who say that it is true munism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress.
Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let e 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