Can you name the U.S. Presidents by their quotes?

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  • Enter a President (last names acceptable) in the box below
  • Correctly named Presidents will show up below
  • Click any empty Quote or President to answer for that location
  • Hint: One president is on here twice because he served two unconsecutive terms (he's the 22nd and 24th President.
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'I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.'
'I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.'
'An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.'
'My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a Government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.'
'The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.'
'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
[America] does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.'
'I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.'
'The chief business of the American people is business.'
'compassionate conservative'
'If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.'
'I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.'
'America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.'
'One man with courage makes a majority'
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.'
'I am a poor hater. '
'We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.'
'I cannot tell a lie'
'The bud of victory is always in the truth.'
'The buck stops here'
'I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.'
'A government of laws, and not of men.'
QuotePresident
'The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.'
'The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.'
'Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsib
'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.'
'They misunderestimated me.'
'It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.'
'Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.'
'I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.'
'Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.'
'I like the noise of democracy.'
'It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.'
'Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.'
'[That all] men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'
'The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Missis
'The world must be safe for democracy.'
'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'
'Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.'
'My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.'
'It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.'
'Well I am not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.'
'No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.'
'All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.'
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U.S. Presidents by Quotes Quiz

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  • Created Dec 2, 2011 in History
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