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 Who Said That?
See if you know who said some of my favorite quotes
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The famous words of other people. I enjoy a good quote, these are some my favorite that I have found. Can you match the person with the words?

Check back often until I have all 250 question allowed, I will be adding quotes.
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1. Political:
 If you started a business when Christ was born and lost one million dollars a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost one trillion dollars.
      Phil Crane        
      Bill Clinton        
      Hillary Clinton        
      John Doe        
      Gerry Studds        
 
2. Political:
 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
      Ronald Reagan        
      Mark Twain        
      George Bernard Shaw        
      Thomas Paine        
      Dixie Chicks        
 
3. Political:
 Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
      Benjamin Franklin        
      Thomas Hobbes        
      Marquis De Sade        
      John F. Kennedy        
      John Locke        
 
4. Native American:
 The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized societies.
      Tomochichi - Creek Chief        
      Old Tassel - Cherokee        
      Cochise - Chiricahua Chief        
      Black Hawk - Sauk        
      Red Cloud - Sioux        
 
5. Religious:
 Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
      Jesus Christ        
      Thomas Paine        
      Muhammad        
      Peter McWilliams        
      Saint Augustine        
 
6. Philosophy:
 People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy; and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
      Ricky Hammond        
      Charles Manson        
      Stephen King        
      Anne Rice        
      Dean Koontz        
 
7. Political:
 What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
      George W. Bush        
      Adolf Hitler        
      Sadam Hussein        
      Tony Blair        
      Kim Jong-il        
 
8. Native American:
 We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth. But we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that.
      Black Hawk - Sauk        
      Chief Joseph - Nez Perce        
      Black Elk - Oglala Sioux        
      Tecumseh - Shawnee        
      Sitting Bull - Teton Sioux        
 
9. Native American:
 The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.
      Long Mandan - Sioux        
      Chief Joseph - Nez Perce        
      Big Elk - Omaha Chief        
      Aseenewub - Red Lake Ojibwe        
      Black Hawk - Sauk        
 
10. Political:
 You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
      Jeannette Rankin        
      Tom Stout        
      George W. Bush        
      Adolf Hitler        
      Albert Einstein        
 
11. Native American:
 There is no death, only a change of worlds.
      Chief Seattle - Suqwamish        
      Black Hawk - Sauk        
      White Shield - Arikara Chief        
      Sitting Bull - Teton Sioux        
      Sharitarish - Pawnee        
 
12. Native American:
 The white man who is our agent is so stingy that he carries a linen rag in his pocket into which to blow his nose, for fear he might blow away somthing of value.
      Piapot - Cree Chief        
      Chief Joseph - Nez Perce        
      Saritarish - Pawnee        
      Old Tassel - Cherokee        
      Crowfoot - Blackfeet Chief        
 
13. Philosophy:
 The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
      Martin Luther King Jr.        
      John Kennedy        
      Mick Jagger        
      General George S. Patton        
      Abraham Lincoln        
 
14. Political:
 The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others.
      George Washington        
      Thomas Jefferson        
      George W. Bush        
      Franklin Rosevelt        
      Abraham Lincoln        
 
15. Religious:
 The Ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
      Confucius        
      Jesus Christ        
      Pope Benedict XVI        
      Osama Bin Laden        
      Muhammad        
 
16. Native American:
 Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
      Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) - Santee Sioux        
      Four Guns - Oglala Sioux        
      Many Horses - Oglala Sioux        
      Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux        
      Sitting Bull - Teton Sioux        
 
17. Philosophy:
  What if our certainties, like the foundations of this very theater were built on double standards?
      Axilea        
      Herodotus        
      Homer        
      Syagrus        
      Euripides        
 
18. Religion:
 In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
      Friedrich Nietzsche        
      Voltaire        
      Saint Augustine        
      Oscar Wilde        
      William Shakespeare        
 
19. Philosophy:
 How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
      Helen Keller        
      Louisa May Alcott        
      Jeannette Rankin        
      Elton John        
      Anne Frank        
 
20. Native American:
 If my warriors are to fight they are too few; if they are to die they are too many.
      Big Elk - Omaha Chief        
      Hendrick - Mohawk        
      Chief Plenty Coups - Crow        
      Maquinna - Nootka Chief        
      Four Guns - Oglala Sioux        
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