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FAMILY QUIZ
FAMOUS AMERICAN SAYINGS By MYLES CALLUM
DO actions speak louder than
words? Sometimes. But the
best words can be magical stuff. A
few well-chosen words can ring
with glory, inspire men to great-
ness, change the world. Words can
start a rumor—or a riot. Here are
some memorable words by famous
Americans. Can you and your family
identify their speakers?
1. "As I would not be a slave, so
would I not be a master."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Martin Luther King
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington Carver
2. "These are the times that try
men's souls."
Nathan Hale
John Adams
Thomas Paine
Ogden Nash
3. "Speak softly—and carry a big
stick."
Patrick Henry
68 Paul Revere
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
4. "If men and women are in
chains, anywhere in the world,
then freedom is endangered
everywhere."
John F. Kennedy
George Bernard Shaw
Benjamin Franklin
Lyndon B. Johnson
5. "I have not yet begun to fight."
Douglas MacArthur
John J. Pershing
John Paul Jones
6. "The difficult we do immedi-
ately. The impossible takes a
little longer."
Dwight Eisenhower
George S. Patton, Jr.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Seabees
7. "They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little tem-
porary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
8. "My definition of a free society
is a society where it is safe to
be unpopular."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Adlai Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
Eric Hoffer
9. "One man with courage makes
a majority."
Dean Acheson
Samuel Adams
Andrew Jackson
Bernard Baruch
10. "Ours is the only country delib-
erately founded on a good idea."
John Gunther
Carl Sandburg
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Daniel Boone
11. "I am a free man, an American,
a United States Senator, and a
Democrat, in that order."
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
12. "Mankind must put an end to
war, or war will put an end to
mankind."
Benjamin Franklin
William Faulkner
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
13. "Far better it is to dare mighty
things, to win glorious tri-
umphs, even though checkered
by failure, than to take rank
with poor spirits who neither
enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory
nor defeat."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Roosevelt
George Washington
James Monroe
14. "This is a world of compensa-
tion; and he who would be no
slave must consent to have no
slave."
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
Andrew Carnegie
William Jennings Bryan
15. "There is no indispensable
man."
John Dewey
Albert Einstein
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Cabot Lodge
16. "There never was a good war
or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
Herbert Hoover
Sinclair Lewis
Calvin Coolidge
17. "Hitch your wagon to a star."
Carl Sandburg
Ulysses S. Grant
Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "If a man does not keep pace
with his companions, perhaps
it is because he hears a different
drummer."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry David Thoreau
George Washington
Thomas Alva Edison
19. "I am in earnest—I will not
equivocate—I will not excuse—
I will not retreat a single inch
—AND I WILL BE HEARD."
Martin Luther King
John Paul Jones
William Lloyd Garrison
Andrew Jackson
20. "Sink or swim, live or die, sur-
vive or perish, I give my hand
and my heart to this vote."
Daniel Webster
Stonewall Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Robert E. Lee
ANSWERS:
(1) Abraham Lincoln (2) Thomas
Paine (3) Theodore Roosevelt (4)
John F. Kennedy (5) John Paul
Jones (6) U.S. Corps of Engineers
(7) Benjamin Franklin (8) Adlai
Stevenson (9) Andrew Jackson (10)
John Gunther (11) Lyndon B. John-
son (12) John F. Kennedy (13)
Theodore Roosevelt (14) Abraham
Lincoln (15) Woodrow Wilson (16)
Benjamin Franklin (17) Ralph
Waldo Emerson (18) Henry David
Thoreau (19) William Lloyd Garri-
son (20) Daniel Webster; in a eulogy
to John Adams, Webster was para-
phrasing Adams when he signed
the Declaration of Independence.
RATE YOURSELF
Allow 1 point for each correct an-
swer: 20, you are a genius; 19-16, no
doubt you're a history teacher;
11-15, you belong to the silent ma-
jority; 10 or less, you just joined
our editors' club.
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