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Because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies. because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom we can say here in berlin, here in europe, our values won. openness won. tolerance won and freedom won. here in berlin. and yet more than two decades after that triumph, we must acknowledge that there can at times be a complacency among our western democracies. today people often come together in places like this to remember history, not to make it. after all, we face no concrete walls, no barbed wire. there are no tanks poised to cross a border.

And because courageous crowds climbed atop that wall, because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies, because millions across this continent down breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say here in berlin, here in europe, our values won, openness won, tolerance won and freedom won, here in berlin. and yet more than two decades after that triumph we must acknowledge that there can at times be a complacency among our western democracies. today people often come together in places like this to remember history, not to make it. after all, we face no concrete walls, no barbed wire.