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Quotation from Tear Down This Wall (Brandenburg Gate Address) by Ronald Reagan
“General 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 gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Tear Down This Wall (Brandenburg Gate Address), Paragraph 12 (Public Papers of the Presidents (1987))
The challenge to the Soviet leader, the line that officials had tried to remove.
Citation: "General 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 gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" — Ronald Reagan, Tear Down This Wall (Brandenburg Gate Address), Paragraph 12 (Public Papers of the Presidents (1987)). (id tear-down-this-wall-q4)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: President Reagan giving a speech at the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Federal Republic of Germany. June 12, 1987, Reagan White House Photographs, Public domain.
