Ronald Reagan actually said...

Let it be said of this generation of Americans that when we pass the torch of freedom onto the new generation, it was burning as brightly as when it was handed to us.

Context

Remarks at the Dedication of the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress

11/19/1981

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