Ronald Reagan: “Governments that systematically violate those rights lose their claim…”

On the recordJune 11, 1986

Governments that systematically violate those rights lose their claim to legitimacy.

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Republican · California

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Proclamation 5501—Baltic Freedom Day, 1986

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