Editing Tear down this wall! (section)

== Speech ==
[[File:President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan during his trip to West Berlin.jpg|West Berlin mayor [[Eberhard Diepgen]] watching the speech|thumb]]
Arriving in Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, Reagan and his wife were taken to the [[Reichstag building|Reichstag]] where they viewed the wall from a balcony.<ref name="DW">{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/reagans-famous-tear-down-this-wall-speech-turns-20/a-2584812|title=Ronald Reagan's Famous "Tear Down This Wall" Speech Turns 20|access-date=November 8, 2014|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|date=June 12, 2007}}</ref> Reagan then gave his speech at the [[Brandenburg Gate]] at 2:00&nbsp;p.m., in front of two panes of [[bulletproof glass]] shielding him from East Berlin.<ref name="raze">{{cite news|last=Boyd |first=Gerald M. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/13/world/raze-berlin-wall-reagan-urges-soviet.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611035403/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/13/world/raze-berlin-wall-reagan-urges-soviet.html |archive-date=June 11, 2009 |title=Raze Berlin Wall, Reagan Urges Soviet |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=June 13, 1987 |access-date=January 3, 2022 }}</ref> Among the spectators were West German president [[Richard von Weizsäcker]], chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]], and West Berlin mayor [[Eberhard Diepgen]].<ref name="DW" /> In the speech, he said:

{{blockquote|We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. 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!<ref name="text">{{cite web|url=https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-east-west-relations-brandenburg-gate-west-berlin|title=Remarks on East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin|access-date=May 29, 2011|publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428083241/https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/speeches/1987/061287d.htm|archive-date=April 28, 2016}}</ref>}}