I find quotes to be very interesting. It's like a tiny little snapshot into what someone is thinking. While a single quote cannot represent the entirety of someone's position on an issue, it does provide significant insight into their way of thinking. It's also fun and insightful to compare and contrast quotes from different people who lived at different times.
Thus, I've put this little list together of what I find to be a few meaningful quotes. I've written a quote and given some options for who might have said it. In order to read the answer highlight it with your mouse (the type color is white).
Who said:
1) "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."
A. Franklin Roosevelt
B. George W. Bush
C. Barack Obama
D. Jimmy Carter
Answer: George W. Bush, on activating the TARP program in fall of 2008.
2) "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
A. George Washington
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. George W. Bush
D. Winston Churchill
Answer: George Washington. January 8, 1790, in his first annual message to Congress.
3) "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions."
A. John Adams
B. Karl Marx
C. Newt Gingrich
D. James Madison
Answer: James Madison
4) "The federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life. It is only government that can break the vicious cycle where lost jobs lead to people spending less money which leads to even more layoffs."
A. Al Gore
B. Hillary Clinton
C. Barack Obama
D. Jacques Chirac
Answer: Barack Obama
5) "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden." (emphasis mine)
A. Ronald Reagan
B. George W. Bush
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Bill Clinton
Answer: Ronald Reagan
6) "I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University."
A. Milton Friedman
B. Al Gore
C. George H.W. Bush
D. William F. Buckley
Answer: Conservative thinker William F. Buckley
7) "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable results...And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion."
A. George Washington
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Lyndon Johnson
D. Bobby Kennedy
Answer: George Washington, in his Farewell Address
8) "Ours is a government set up for the governance of the highly religious and moral. It is wholly inadequate for the governing of any other."
A. Dwight D. Eisenhower
B. John Adams
C. Ulysses S. Grant
D. Billy Graham
Answer: John Adams
9) “One of the great strengths of the United States is ... we have a very large Christian population — we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.”
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Martin Luther King, Jr
C. Bill Maher
D. Barack Obama
Answer: President Barack Obama, at a press conference in Turkey
10) "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
A. George Washington
B. Ronald Reagan
C. John F. Kennedy
D. Bill Clinton
Answer: Ronald Reagan
11) "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
A. Ronald Reagan
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Margaret Thatcher
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
12) "In the most advanced countries the following will be pretty generally applicable: a heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
A. Karl Marx
B. Jimmy Carter
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. Dan Quayle
Answer: Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto
13) "I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Karl Marx
C. Bill O'Reilly
D. Barack Obama
Answer: Barack Obama
14) "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
A. Herbert Hoover
B. Ronald Reagan
C. Bill Owens
D. Jeff Foxworthy
Answer: Ronald Reagan
15) "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
A. J.D. Salinger
B. Mark Twain
C. C.S. Lewis
D. JRR Tolkien
Answer: C.S. Lewis
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