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Ronald Reagan: Too much government has always meant the oppression of the human spirit and the stultification of human progress.

On the recordJune 18, 1984
Too much government has always meant the oppression of the human spirit and the stultification of human progress.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Scholars Awards

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