Ronald Reagan: “We don't want to keep people on welfare, keep them in bondage as wards…”

On the recordOctober 7, 1984

We don't want to keep people on welfare, keep them in bondage as wards of the state.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at a Reagan-Bush Rally in Charlotte, North Carolina

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