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Ronald Reagan: “A government which does not respect the rights of its own people and laws is unlikely to respect those of its neighbors.”

On the recordDecember 9, 1986
A government which does not respect the rights of its own people and laws is unlikely to respect those of its neighbors.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks on Signing the Human Rights Day

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