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Jimmy Carter: The great democracies are not free because we are strong and prosperous.

On the recordMay 21, 1977
The great democracies are not free because we are strong and prosperous.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Address at Commencement Exercises at the University of Notre Dame

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