Ronald Reagan: “One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for…”

On the recordJune 5, 1984

One's country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at a Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-day

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