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

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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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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

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