Famous Speeches

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Instructions: Match famous quotes and speeches to their speakers — how well do you know history's greatest orators?

1.
Who said 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin'?
A
Malcolm X
B
Martin Luther King Jr.
C
Frederick Douglass
D
Jesse Jackson
2.
Who declared 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'?
A
Winston Churchill
B
Theodore Roosevelt
C
John F. Kennedy
D
Franklin D. Roosevelt
3.
Who said 'Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country'?
A
John F. Kennedy
B
Barack Obama
C
Ronald Reagan
D
Abraham Lincoln
4.
Who said 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds... we shall never surrender'?
A
Winston Churchill
B
Franklin Roosevelt
C
Charles de Gaulle
D
Dwight Eisenhower
5.
Who proclaimed 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'?
A
Alan Shepard
B
Buzz Aldrin
C
Neil Armstrong
D
John Glenn
6.
Who said 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'?
A
Jimmy Carter
B
George H.W. Bush
C
Margaret Thatcher
D
Ronald Reagan
7.
Who said 'Give me liberty, or give me death!'?
A
Thomas Jefferson
B
Samuel Adams
C
Patrick Henry
D
Benjamin Franklin
8.
Who said 'I came, I saw, I conquered' (Veni, vidi, vici)?
A
Alexander the Great
B
Augustus
C
Napoleon Bonaparte
D
Julius Caesar
9.
Who said 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (I am a Berliner)?
A
Ronald Reagan
B
John F. Kennedy
C
Willy Brandt
D
Konrad Adenauer
10.
Who delivered the Gettysburg Address beginning 'Four score and seven years ago'?
A
George Washington
B
Abraham Lincoln
C
Ulysses S. Grant
D
Andrew Johnson
11.
Who said 'The ballot is stronger than the bullet'?
A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Nelson Mandela
C
Abraham Lincoln
D
Susan B. Anthony
12.
Who said 'Be the change that you wish to see in the world'?
A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Dalai Lama
C
Nelson Mandela
D
Mother Teresa
13.
Who said 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'?
A
John Adams
B
Benjamin Franklin
C
Thomas Jefferson
D
James Madison
14.
Who said 'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'?
A
Friedrich Nietzsche
B
Sigmund Freud
C
Albert Einstein
D
Aristotle
15.
Who said 'A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water'?
A
Margaret Thatcher
B
Rosa Parks
C
Eleanor Roosevelt
D
Amelia Earhart

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