| Quote | President | % Correct |
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| "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" | Ronald Reagan | 100%
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| "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." | Bill Clinton | 87%
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| "We will make America great again!" | Donald Trump | 80%
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| "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 80%
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| "I am not a crook." | Richard Nixon | 80%
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| "Read my lips: no new taxes." | George H.W. Bush | 73%
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| "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." | Thomas Jefferson | 67%
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| "Yes we can." | Barack Obama | 53%
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| "We must guard against... the military-industrial complex." | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 53%
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| We Polked you in '44, We shall _____ you in '52. (campaign slogan) | Franklin Pierce | 53%
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| "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." | George W. Bush | 53%
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick." | Theodore Roosevelt | 53%
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| "A house divided against itself cannot stand." | Abraham Lincoln | 47%
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| "The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it." | Andrew Jackson | 47%
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| "The buck stops here." | Harry S. Truman | 47%
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| "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." | John F. Kennedy | 47%
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| "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." | James Madison | 40%
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| "The American continents... are henceforth not to be subjects for future colonization by European power." | James Monroe | 40%
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| "We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it." | Joe Biden | 40%
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| "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." | Gerald R. Ford | 33%
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| "In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land." | Herbert Hoover | 33%
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| Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! (campaign slogan) | James K. Polk | 33%
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| "Facts are stubborn things." | John Adams | 33%
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| "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." | George Washington | 27%
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| "America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." | John Quincy Adams | 27%
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| “Let us have peace." | Ulysses S. Grant | 27%
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| "Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever." | William Howard Taft | 27%
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| "We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." | Benjamin Harrison | 20%
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| "The business of America is business." | Calvin Coolidge | 20%
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| "If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed." | James Buchanan | 20%
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| "As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." | Martin Van Buren | 20%
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| "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration." | Warren G. Harding | 20%
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| "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed." | William McKinley | 20%
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| "Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide." | Andrew Johnson | 13%
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| "I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business." | Chester A. Arthur | 13%
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| "Public office is a public trust." | Grover Cleveland | 13%
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| “I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.” | James A. Garfield | 13%
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| "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it’s the other way around." | Jimmy Carter | 13%
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| "I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free." | John Tyler | 13%
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| "I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy." | Lyndon B. Johnson | 13%
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| "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonest victory." | Millard Fillmore | 13%
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| "The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best." | Rutherford B. Hayes | 13%
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| "The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed." | William Henry Harrison | 13%
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| "The world must be made safe for democracy." | Woodrow Wilson | 13%
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| "I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish—nothing to serve but my country." | Zachary Taylor | 13%
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