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Ronald Reagan: The reward for good deeds does not only come in the hereafter, it comes every day in the knowledge that the world is…

On the recordOctober 16, 1988
The reward for good deeds does not only come in the hereafter, it comes every day in the knowledge that the world is maybe a little better because of the things you've done in your life.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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