Independence and Patriotic Quotes Quiz

Answer: Erma Louise Bombeck

"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism".

Bombeck was popular for her newspaper columns and best-seller books from the mid-60s until her death in 1996.

Answer: Daniel Webster

As the fourteenth Secretary of State, Daniel Webster served under President William Henry Harrison and John Tyler from 1941 to 1943. He again became the nineteenth Secretary of State under the presidency of Millard Fillmore, in term from 1850 to 1852.

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes

At the request of President Theodore Roosevelt, Holmes, a former Harvard law student, was appointed as the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He held that seat from 1902 to 1932. He died in 1935 at the age of ninety-three.

Answer: Samuel F. Smith

In addition to being a minister, Samuel Francis Smith was also a journalist and author who attended Harvard from 1825 to 1829. In 1831, he penned the lyrics to "America", also known as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee". The first public performance of his song was at an Independence Day celebration in Boston, Massachusetts on July 4, 1831.

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson was born in the state of Virginia in 1743 and later attended the College of William and Mary. He served as United States president from 1801 to 1809. He retired to his inherited mountaintop home of Monticello with approximately five thousand acres, where he designed the University of Virginia. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln was in office as the U.S. president from 1861 to 1865. He is well known for his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 that freed the slaves from the Confederacy. His most famous speech was delivered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863 quoting, "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Answer: John Adams

Adams was instrumental in his patriotic cause of leading the movement for independence. He served as Vice President under George Washington from 1789 to 1797. When elected into the presidency, his term lasted from 1797 until 1801. John Adams and former president Thomas Jefferson died only hours apart on July 4, 1826.

"It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. ... I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means. And that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not".

Answer: John Hancock

Perhaps the most familiar, not to mention the first and foremost, dominant handwritten signature was that of John Hancock on the Declaration of Independence in 1776. His goal of independence from Britain was defined by his signature and 55 more, including those of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Nelson, Jr. to name but a few.

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

After enlisting in the United States Army, Dwight David Eisenhower attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. He held the position as the First Supreme Allied Commander from 1951 until 1952. He was elected for two terms as president and served from 1953 to 1961. He is well known for his presidential slogan, "I like Ike".

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected the thirty-second president of the U.S. in 1933 at the time of the Great Depression. In his Inaugural Address, he brought hope and assured millions that, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". He was a distant cousin to the former President Theodore Roosevelt. He is the only U.S. president that ever served more than two consecutive terms. He was in office from 1933 to 1945.

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www.ermamuseum.org/
www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
www.writesite.org/html/famous.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/hancock.htm
www.dwightdeisenhower.com/biodde.html
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html
americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/4th_of_july_quotes_and_sayings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.Holmes
http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/webster-daniel