Ronald Reagan actually said...

I can't help but believe—you can call it mysticism if you will—that God must have placed this land here between the oceans to be found by a certain kind of people.

Context

Remarks Announcing the Formation of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission

05/17/1982

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