Category: USA Trivia Answers
Who said:
“As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; we will not surrender for it, now or ever.”
Answer:
Ronald Reagan in his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1981.
Who said:
“…They attack the integrity and honor of American Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which they have more confidence.”
Answer:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his speech at Madison Square Garden on October 31, 1936.
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act that extended the rights of emancipated slaves?
Answer:
18th President, Ulysses S. Grant, signed The Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed through Congress in February and signed by President Grant on March 1, 1875. Requested by Grant himself, it’s essential goal was to protect blacks from being terrorized by the KKK. It prevented members of the klan of the right to appear before the court for KKK-related crimes.
Who Said:
“Americans are one of the most religious peoples on Earth. Because they know that liberty, just as life itself, is not earned, but a gift from God, they seek to share the gift with the World.”
Answer:
President Regan in his “Moscow State University Address” 5/31/88
Yeah, we’ve seen this speech before, right?
Well, let me add another quote from the speech: “Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth.”
Who said this & what was the occasion:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
Answer:
2nd President, John Adams, – then a lawyer – during the Boston Massacre trial, December 4, 1770
Who said:
“Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.”
Answer:
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a speech to the Michigan legislature in Lansing, Michigan on May, 15 1952.
Who was the first president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer:
26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for offering his services as a mediator between Russia and Japan, asking the belligerents to nominate plenipotentiaries to negotiate on the conditions of peace.
