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Ronald Reagan

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Reagan on Democracy

My message today is that the dreams of ordinary people reach to astonishing heights.

September 21, 1987

Two centuries ago, in a hall much smaller than this one, in Philadelphia, Americans met to draft a Constitution. In the course of their debates, one of them said that the new government, if it was to rise high, must be built on the broadest base: the will and consent of the people. And so it was, and so it has been. My message today is that the dreams of ordinary people reach to astonishing heights. If we diplomatic pilgrims are to achieve equal altitudes, we must build all we do on the full breadth of humanity's will and consent and the full expanse of the human heart.

Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York

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