I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed. 我很自豪能以你们尊敬的市长的客人身份来到这座城市，他在全世界象征着西柏林的战斗精神。我也很自豪能访问联邦共和国，与你们尊敬的总理一同前来——他多年来致力于德国的民主、自由和进步——并与我的同胞克莱将军一同来到这里，他在这座城市最危急的时刻曾在这里，如果需要，他将再次前来。
Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner." 两千年前，最自豪的宣言是"我是罗马公民"。今天，在自由世界里，最自豪的宣言是"我是柏林人"。
(I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.) （感谢我的译员翻译我的德语。）
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. 世界上有许多人确实不理解，或者说他们不理解，自由世界和共产主义世界之间的重大分歧是什么。
Let them come to Berlin. 让他们来柏林看看。
There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. 有些人说共产主义是未来的潮流。
Let them come to Berlin. 让他们来柏林看看。
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the Communists. 还有些人说，在欧洲和其他地方，我们可以与共产主义者合作。
Let them come to Berlin. 让他们来柏林看看。
And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. 甚至还有少数人说，共产主义确实是一个邪恶的制度，但它允许我们取得经济进步。
Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. 让他们来柏林看看。
Let them come to Berlin. 让他们来柏林看看。
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in -- to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say on behalf of my countrymen who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride, that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope, and the determination of the city of West Berlin. 自由有许多困难，民主也并不完美。但我们从未需要筑起一堵墙来留住我们的人民——阻止他们离开我们。我想代表我远在大西洋彼岸、与你们相隔万里的同胞说，他们感到无比自豪，因为他们能够与你们分享过去18年的故事，即使是从远方。我不知道有哪个城镇、哪个城市，被围困了18年，仍然能像西柏林市这样充满活力、力量、希望和决心。
While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system -- for all the world to see -- we take no satisfaction in it; for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together. 虽然这堵墙是共产主义制度失败最明显、最生动的证明——全世界都能看到——但我们对此并不感到满意；因为正如你们的市长所说，这不仅是对历史的冒犯，也是对人类的冒犯，它分离了家庭，分裂了夫妻和兄弟姐妹，分裂了渴望团结在一起的人民。
What is true of this city is true of Germany: Real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. 这座城市的情况也是整个德国的情况：只要四分之一的德国人被剥夺了自由人最基本的权利——即自由选择的权利，欧洲就永远无法确保真正持久的和平。在18年的和平与善意中，这一代德国人已经赢得了自由的权利，包括在持久和平中团结他们的家庭和国家的权利，对所有人怀有善意。
You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you, as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind. 你们生活在一个被保卫的自由岛屿上，但你们的生活是整体的一部分。因此，在结束之际，我想请你们把目光从今天的危险转向明天的希望，从这座柏林城或你们德国的自由，转向世界各地自由的进步，从这堵墙转向正义与和平的那一天，从你们自己和我们自己转向全人类。
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. 自由不可分割，当一个人被奴役时，所有人都不自由。当所有人都自由时，我们才能期待有一天这座城市将重新统一，这个国家和这个伟大的欧洲大陆将融入一个和平与充满希望的世界。当那一天最终到来时——它一定会到来——西柏林人民可以冷静地感到自豪，因为他们在近二十年的时间里一直站在前线。
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. 所有自由的人，无论他们生活在哪里，都是柏林的公民。
And, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words -- 因此，作为一个自由的人，我自豪地说出这些话——
"Ich bin ein Berliner." "我是柏林人。"