Study Break:

What are they talking about?

Several quotations are written below. Do you know what they were talking about?

1. George Washington "If I said so, it was when I was young."
2. John Adams (1789) "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."
3. Abraham Lincoln (January 1, 1863) "I have been shaking hands since nine o'clock this morning and my right arm is almost paralyzed. If my name ever goes into history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it. If my hand trembles when I sign the Proclamation, all who examine the document hereafter will say, 'He hesitated.'"
4. General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1863 and later) "…get there first with the most men."
5. Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865) "It has been advertised that we will be there and I cannot disappoint the people. Otherwise I would not go. I do not want to go."
6. Samuel J. Tilden (February 1877) "I can retire to private life with the consciousness that I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office."
7. General William T. Sherman (August 11, 1880) "…boys, it is all hell."
8. Charles J. Guiteau (July 2, 1881) "The President's tragic death was a sad necessity, but it will unite the Republican Party and save the Republic…I had no ill-will toward the President. His death was a political necessity."
9. Herbert Hoover (March 1930) "All the evidences indicate that the worst effects of the crash upon unemployment will have passed during the next sixty days."
10. Anton J. Cermak (February 15, 1933) "I'm glad it was me instead of you, Frank. The country needs you."
11. Neville Chamberlain (September 30, 1938) "My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And now I recommend you to go home and sleep quietly in your beds." 9/30/1938
12. Harry S. Truman (April 13, 1945) "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets fell on me."
13. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959) "If you give me a week, I might think of one."
14. Gerald Ford (August 9, 1974) "Our nation's nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men."
15. Ronald Reagan (March 30, 1981) "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."

What are they talking about answers

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