Today’s Mystery Quote quiz will be in multiple choice format. Below are several speech excerpts. Select the speaker for each phrase from the following: (a) John F. Kennedy, (b) Barack Obama, (c) Adolf Hitler, and (d) Ronald Reagan. Some speakers may have more than one statement.
- 1) True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace.
- 2) Let them come to Berlin.
- 3) There is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds.
- 4) Tear down this wall!
- 5) For when our nation lost its political place in the world, it soon lost its unity of spirit and will….Unity is our tool. Therefore we now appeal to the German people to support this reconciliation.
- 6) So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today …to the hopes of tomorrow …to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
- 7) The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. Let us build on our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world.
Bonus: What do the above speeches have in common?
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