Ronald Reagan actually said...

Free men and women are not destined to be powerless victims of some capricious historical tide; free men and women are themselves the driving force of history.

Context

Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group

09/24/1984

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