【正文】 first election to the and I share many memoriessome of them have been glorious, some have been very opportunity to work with you and serve Massachusetts has made my life so I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think this through with facing this decision, I seek your advice and making it, I seek your prayersfor this is a decision that I will have finally to make on my has been written a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and pressures, and that is the basis of human may be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his consciencethe loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow maneach man must decide for himself the course he will stories of the past courage cannot supply courage this, each man must look into his own pray that I can have the courage to make the right is decided and whatever the future holds for me, I hope that I shall have been able to put this most recent tragedy behind me and make some further contribution to our state and mankind, whether it be in public or private you and good night.第三篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講一百篇美國20世紀經(jīng)典英語演講100篇（MP3+文本） 第四篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:Brandenburg Gate Address時間:2008612 10:19:20 來源:本站原創(chuàng)作者:echo(女宇航員選拔標準 | 招聘英語編輯)進入MP3下載頁面下載到我的手機(下載播放軟件 | 如不能播放請點擊此處)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。by the feeling of history in this citymore than 500 years older than our own nation。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。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。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 abundancefood, clothing, automobilesthe wonderful goods of the Kudamm.185。t count on: Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze.[Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.178。for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human libertythe advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this , open this , tear down this wall!I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and I pledge to you my country39。so we must strive to reduce arms on both 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS20 nuclear missiles capable of striking every capital in Western alliance responded by mitting itself to a counterdeployment(unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution)namely, the elimination of such weapons on both many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forwar