I am grateful for your invitation and I am happy to be here.

There are 1 million Americans serving outside the frontiers of the United States.

We are allies in the only war we seek--the war against poverty, hunger, disease, and ignorance in our own countries, and around the world.

It was here for many years, that he first practiced the art of statecraft which has served the West so well.

Here in Western Germany you have achieved a solid framework of freedom, a miracle of economic recovery, and an opportunity to express your political ideals through action in Europe and through the world.

They regard it as a privilege to play their part in these great days.

My stay in this country will be all too brief, but in a larger sense the United States is here on this continent to stay.

I want to express my thanks to you for your generous welcome to us all.

Therefore, I hope those of you who are German citizens feel that in working with us so closely, you are also working for the welfare of your own country and the security and freedom of the West, and those things which make the West worth…

Western Europe is no longer weakened by conflict, but is fast becoming a full partner in prosperity and security.

The problems of the Western world are, in many ways, different than they were 2000 years ago, but our obligations as citizens remain the same-to defend our common heritage from those who would divide and destroy it; to develop and enrich…