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On the recordMay 26, 1988
Yes, freedom—the right to speak, to print; the right to worship, to travel, to assemble; the right to be different, the right, as the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'to step to the music of a different drummer'—this is freedom as most Europeans and Americans understand it and freedom as it is embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, yes, in the Helsinki accords.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Paasikivi Society and the League of Finnish-American Societies in Helsinki, Finland

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