Ronald Reagan actually said...

America's unflagging sympathy for a determined people, its support for their refugees and commitment to achieving a political settlement for Afghanistan will free that country from tyranny's yoke.

Context

Proclamation 5033—Afghanistan Day, 1983

03/20/1983

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