Ronald Reagan actually said...

The true division in the world today is not between east and west, but between progress and stagnation, between freedom and oppression, between hope and despair.

Context

Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan at a Luncheon in Tokyo

11/09/1983

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