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Freedom and Tyranny Quotes
In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan… The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world...
Contrasting Regions: The East and the West Quotes
A strong, free world in the West, that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium—virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and econo...
Identity Quotes
In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. (24-25)
Warfare Quotes
I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent—and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens. To be sure, we in the West must resist S...
Perseverance Quotes
We come to Berlin, we American presidents, because it's out duty to speak, in this place, of freedom. But I must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well: by the feeling of history in this...