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Study Break:
Amazing
Presidential Quotes
Match the quotations
with the President who made the amazing quote.
John Adams-
Abraham Lincoln (3) - Warren G. Harding (2) - Thomas Jefferson -
Andrew Johnson - Calvin Coolidge - John Quincy Adams - Rutherford
B. Hayes - Franklin Roosevelt - William Henry Harrison - Theodore
Roosevelt - Jimmy Carter - James Buchanan - Woodrow Wilson
1. "I've looked
on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart
many times."
2. "My dear, sir, if you are as happy on entering the White House
as I on leaving, you are a very happy man indeed."
3. "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with
the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe
I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do
so…"
4. "These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks
on me, or with my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that,
they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent
attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent
them."
5. "Dear General, if you do not want to use the army I would like
to borrow it for a few days."
6. "The history of our Revolution will be one continued lie from
one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr.
Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprang General
Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod-and thenceforward
these two conducted all the policies, negotiations, legislatures
and war."
7. "I never saw this before. I didn't write this and I don't believe
what I just read!"
8. "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty
gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
9. "Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear
if we would only sit down and keep still."
10. "All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose
of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
11. "If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat
at the other, all would be well with the country."
12. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of
the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people
all of the time."
13. "Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the
most pretensions and are boldest usually win."
14. "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight
car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole
railroad."
15. "My first recollection is of standing at my father's gateway
in Augusta, Georgia, when I was four years old, and hearing someone
pass and say that Mr. Lincoln was elected and there was to be war."
16. "The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air,
with the thermometer at zero, is a Yankee invention, which requires
a Yankee poet to describe."
17. "My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my
enemies…but my damn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking
the floor nights."
Amazing
Presidential Quotes answers
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Franklin D.
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