
Quotations Quiz
Question 1
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
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