which president tore down the berlin wall
Ronald Reagan speaking at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. (Ronald Reagan Library) Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. . . . Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.