Quotes Flashcards

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During their last speech before their death in 1861, this quote was said by whom?
“There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in the war; only patriots and traitors. “

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Stephen Douglas

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Who said this quote:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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Abraham Lincoln

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Who said this quote?

Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?

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Priscilla Mullins in The Courtship of Miles Standish (a poem published in 1858 by Henry Longfellow)

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Who wrote this: “I leave this rule for others when I’m dead

Be always sure you’re right – then go ahead!”

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Davy Crockett from his “A Narrative of the life of Davy Crockett”

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Who wrote this: “I leave this rule for others when I’m dead

Be always sure you’re right – then go ahead!”

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Davy Crockett from his “A Narrative of the life of Davy Crockett”

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This is written by whom in in what: “Every person has a right to life, to personal liberty, and to hold property”?

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John Locke: “Two Treatises of Government”

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Who said this: “ They are not for you, but for a later age.”

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Ludwig van Beethoven to a vistor bewildered by his later quartets

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