Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

- Ronald Reagan

Random Fact

Ronald Reagan used to be an FBI informer During the Hollywood Red Scare of the late 1940s. He provided the FBI with the names of actors, directors and producers suspected of being in the Communist Party and other Communist sympathizers in Hollywood.

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