Ronald Reagan actually said...

Oil was worthless until entrepreneurs with ideas and the freedom and faith to take risks managed to locate it, extract it, and put it to work for humanity.

Context

Remarks at the National Conference of the National Federation of Independent Business

06/21/1983

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