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Ronald Reagan: “We are a government of and by the people, not the other way around.”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1984
We are a government of and by the people, not the other way around.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Spirit of America Rally in Atlanta, Georgia

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