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Ronald Reagan: “If someone offered me, who has always been a socialist, the most radical social reform at the expense of freedom, I…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1982
If someone offered me, who has always been a socialist, the most radical social reform at the expense of freedom, I would refuse, because freedom must never be bartered away.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Toast at the State Dinner Honoring President Alessandro Pertini of Italy

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