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Ronald Reagan: “Government can do nothing unless the people tell government specifically that government can do that.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1986
Government can do nothing unless the people tell government specifically that government can do that.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to Students From Southern Regional High School of Manahawkin, New Jersey, in Baltimore, Maryland

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