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Quotations Quiz


Question 1
Who said it?
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

a. Lyndon B. Johnson
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. Theodore Roosevelt


Question 2
Who said it?
"I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions; and in any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children, than by strangers of another family? With which shall we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse?"

a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. William McKinley
d. Andrew Jackson


Question 3
Who said it?
"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States."

a. William Henry Harrison
b. George Washington
c. James Madison
d. John Adams


Question 4
Who said it?
"This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

a. Harry S. Truman
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. Franklin D. Roosevelt


Question 5
Who said it?
"Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being."

a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William Howard Taft
c. Herbert Hoover
d. Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question 6
Who said it?
"We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back."

a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Franklin D. Roosevelt
c. John Tyler
d. Lyndon B. Johnson


Question 7
"This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way."

a. Warren Harding
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Bill Clinton
d. John Quincy Adams


Question 8
"As America's longest and most difficult war comes to an end, let us again learn to debate our differences with civility and decency. And let each of us reach out for that one precious quality government cannot provide -- a new level of respect for the rights and feelings of one another, a new level of respect for the individual human dignity which is the cherished birthright of every American."

a. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. George Bush
c. Jimmy Carter
d. Richard Nixon


Question 9
"It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people."

a. Ronald Reagan
b. James A. Garfield
c. Gerald R. Ford
d. Benjamin Harrison


Question 10
Who said it?
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

a. Millard Fillmore
b. Franklin Pierce
c. James K. Polk
d. Abraham Lincoln



Answers :

  1. B
  2. A
  3. B
  4. D
  5. A
  6. B
  7. C
  8. D
  9. A
  10. D

Source : www.cnn.com

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