Ronald Reagan: “Government exists to ensure that liberty does not become license to…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1982

Government exists to ensure that liberty does not become license to prey on each other.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at Kansas State University at the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues

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Ronald Reagan: “Government exists to ensure that liberty does not become license to prey on each other.”