In the history of the United States....?

Question

Who is your favorite person and what that person said. I like Martin Luther king jr. he said "The time is always right to do what is right"....

Answer 1

In the dark days of December 1944 when the German armies were attacking US forces in the Ardennes forest ("Battle of the Bulge") Brig. Gen Anthony McAuliffe's terse reply to surrender demands by the Germans-----------"NUTS!"

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson. There's so many fantastic quotes from him, it's hard to choose the best.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826

Answer 3

Ronald Reagan: "The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

Answer 4

Call me weird, but I liked Harry S Truman. He was a character. He fired McArthur, but he said he did it because McArthur disobeyed orders. He said it wasn't because McArthur was disrespectful to him, but because he was disrespectful to the presidency. He honestly believed what he did at Hiroshima would have saved lives, and took full responsibility for his decision. After all, he was the one with the sign on his desk, "The Buck Stops Here."

Answer 5

Joseph Welsh who spoke directly to Senator Joseph McCarthy at the McCarthy vs. US Army hearings. "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

McCarthy's power had already started to weaken. This man put the final nail in his coffin with the public.

Answer 6

Rosa Parks because she didn't give her seat to the white men and she stood up for what she believe in was right which help boycott the buses and took another step for African Americans to get freedom. and segregation.

Answer 7

Abigail Adams-"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebillion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."

She could possibily be the first women's right actvist.

Answer 8

Benedict Arnold, because he said that the USA was a very Bad country

Answer 9

John Paul Jones "I Have Not Begun to Fight!"

Answer 10

Mark Twain - a man who could see through bullshit