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Ronald Reagan: Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply take everything you've got.

On the recordMarch 27, 1985
Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply take everything you've got.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Students and Faculty at St. John's University in New York, New York

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