Who Said It? The US Presidential Quotes Quiz

We might not think of LBJ as the most peaceful of presidents, but this was part of his address to the United Nations shortly after he took office in 1963.

Whoa. Wonder how long Carter was in the doghouse after that quote.

A common-sense statement from Abraham Lincoln, the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Bill Clinton said this at an address at Oscar Mayer Elementary in Chicago in October 1997.

James Garfield probably didn't make this proclamation as part of an official address, but they're his words all the same.

This is the mother of all presidential quotes, 20th-century edition. It's from JFK's inaugural address in 1961.

This was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy manifesto.

Thomas Jefferson wrote this in a letter to John Adams shortly after Congress purchased his personal library.

George Washington made this statement in the very first inaugural address in January 1790.

Me Ronald, you Nancy?

Warren G. Harding gave this rather desperate-sounding scoop to Kansas journalist William Allen White.

Sounds like March 4, 1841, was a pretty great day in the life of Martin Van Buren.

This is another of the great presidential quotes, from FDR's inaugural address.

Polk is generally thought to have had a successful term, but he seems to have had a different view.

The term probably would've went very differently had Tricky Dick followed this dream.

There might be a few exceptions to this rule, but some people would say Chester A. Arthur hit the nail on the head.

Technically this isn't a presidential quote because Obama was still a candidate when he said these famous words in February 2008, but we'll let it slide.

Herbert Hoover never spoke truer words.

Truman told the American people what they must do after Germany surrendered in World War II.

This was an unfortunately prescient claim by Warren G. Harding, who had heart problems and pneumonia when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1923. He was president for only two and a half years.

James Madison seems to have been quite the cynic.

This line is from a leader in the field of strange quotations (and the father of another), George H.W. Bush.

Millard Fillmore, who would be president years after he made this statement, allegedly said this as James K. Polk defeated Henry Clay for the presidency in 1844.

This was pretty disheartening coming from the leader of the Northern cause, Ulysses S. Grant.

John Adams, then a representative in the Continental Congress, made this observation in a letter to fellow representative George Wythe.

Many of George W. Bush's quotes have made headlines.

Sounds like "Silent Cal" Coolidge wished everyone else would follow his example.

Fit or not, Andrew Jackson did end up being president.

This was a rather optimistic observation from Eisenhower.

Is this a hint to how Monroe got through the rough patches in his presidency?