【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ll the could not keep silent.第二篇：美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講一百篇美國(guó)20世紀(jì)經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)演講100篇（MP3+文本） 第三篇：美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:Brandenburg Gate Address時(shí)間:2008612 10:19:20 來(lái)源:本站原創(chuàng)作者:echo(女宇航員選拔標(biāo)準(zhǔn) | 招聘英語(yǔ)編輯)進(jìn)入MP3下載頁(yè)面下載到我的手機(jī)(下載播放軟件 | 如不能播放請(qǐng)點(diǎn)擊此處)Ronald ReaganRemarks at the Brandenburg Gatedelivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.(2)]Thank you, very Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty four years ago, President John visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city since then two other presidents have e, each in his turn to today, I, myself, make my second visit to your e to Berlin, we American Presidents, because it39。s our duty to speak in this place of I must confess, we’re drawn here by other things as well。by the feeling of history in this citymore than 500 years older than our own nation。by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten。most of all, by your courage and the poser, Paul Linke, understood something about American see, like so many Presidents before me, I e here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: “Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin” [I still have a suitcase in Berlin.]Our gathering today is being broadcast throughout Western Europe and North understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the those listening throughout Eastern Europe, I extend my warmest greetings and the good will of the American those listening in East Berlin, a special word: Although I cannot be with you, I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin.[There is only one Berlin.]Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of the Baltic South, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard south, there may be no visible, no obvious there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the samestill a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian , it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly。here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a Von Weizs228。cker has said, “The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed.” Well todaytoday I say: As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all , I do not e here to I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their airraid shelters to find of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to in 1947 Secretary of Stateas you39。ve been toldGeorge Marshall announced the creation of what would bee known as the Marshall precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display memorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall was struck by a signthe sign on a burntout, gutted structure that was being understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the sign read simply: “The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world.” A strong, free world in the Westthat dream became rose from ruin to bee an economic , France, Belgiumvirtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth。the European Community was West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the , Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of libertythat just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can e about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic German leadersthe German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany: busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of a city39。s culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and there was want, today there39。s abundancefood, clothing, automobilesthe wonderful goods of the Kudamm.185。 From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on the Soviets may have had other my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn39。t count on: Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze.[Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.178。]In the 1950sIn the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: “We will bur