How we cite our quotes: (Sentence)
Quote #1
In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. (24-25)
Because we're buds, and that's what buds do. We help each other get freshened up after one of us goes on an extermination frenzy and the other drops a bunch of bombs on our cities to make us stop.
Quote #2
I was struck by the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the Western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world." (29-31)
Because that's what we are: the free world. The United States, West Germany, and the rest of the West. That's why our former Secretary of State's name is on signs all over this city, guys.
Quote #3
In West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder. Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty—the just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. (35-36)
And that right there, that liberty thing? Freedom of speech and economic freedom for farmers and businesses and whatnot? That's all Western, baby.