Saturday, January 26, 2013

POP Quiz (Mark Their Words)

With a presidential inaugural address to be delivered Monday Jan. 21st, a look at some passage from previous speeches.
Match the quote with the president.

1. "In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again.  If we fail now then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and the judgement of God is harshest on those who are most favored."
2. "In pursuing our goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education; in rebuilding our cities and improving our rural areas; in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of life ---- in all these and more, we will and must press urgently forward."
3. "The collection of any taxes which are not absoutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny."
4. "Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves."
5. "The best way for the government to maintain its credit is to pay asit goes ----- not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt ---- through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both."
6. "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

a) Calvin Coolidge, 1925
b) Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
c) William McKinley, 1897
d) Richard M. Nixon, 1969
e) Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937
f) Woodrow Wilson, 1913




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Answers : 1. b  ; 2. d  ; 3. a  ; 4. f  ; 5. c  ; 6. e

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