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Ronald Reagan: “It is my fervent hope for you and your country that there will soon come a day when no one need fear prison for offenses…”

On the recordMay 29, 1988
It is my fervent hope for you and your country that there will soon come a day when no one need fear prison for offenses that involve nothing more than the spoken or written word.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to Soviet Dissidents at Spaso House in Moscow

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