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    "ocrText": "86\nPLB (f)\n- 4 -\nJune 26, 1964\nthe immense challenges that face us around -- and above -- the globe.\nBy our commitment to freedom ve are not only committed to the present.\nWe are not only committed to the futuro. Wie are committed to what is best\nin man.\nThere are some who soek to conquer the future in the name of another\nset of commitments. But these are commitments to a fixed doctrine of the\npast.\nThey are commitments to dogmatism, not freedom; to dictatorship, not\ndemocracy; to arbitrary powor, not justice. They sook rigid solutions to\nchanging problems. They sock to make old answers apply to new questions.\nThe Wall that scars your city is a monstrous, tangible demonstration\nof the truth that fixed ansivers are no answers at all in a changing vorld.\nThey are rather, a response of frustration to the tides of change which\nno man can predict, shape or repol.\nThere are others who seck easy solutions to problems which have no\neasy solutions. They are those who feel that a threat or a bomb can\nmake our difficultics disappear and can demonstrate our courage.\nBut it is these people who do not recognize the true strength and\nthe true courage of humanity. It is these people who have no confidence\nin the future.\nThe future does not belong to such mon, of rigid certitude.\nThe future belongs to those who have confidence in it, to free men\ndedicated to the importance of the individual and to the proposition\nthat the state exists for the individual, not the individual for the\nstate.\nIt is our commitment to freedom which sives us the mechanism with\nwhich to moet and shape the future.\nOur obligation today is to give this commitment nez meaning in our\nwhirling world. In the long run, the only weapon freedom noeds is truth.\nIn the short (run, it must hove other allins.\nThe first ally is courage and* hardly need undorline this point in\nfree Berlin. You have made tho point for the world and for history with\nyour unshakeable loyalty to the free spirit.\nThe second ally is strength and again, Borlin is an examplo for the\nworld.\n- 5 -"
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