Do you know where these quotes came from?

  1. Developed by: Fatty McGee

One of the people listed below the given quote actually said that at one point in time. Guess if you have to. Some may be unexpected.

Question 1: “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Einstein
David Hume
Christopher Hitchens
Malcolm X

Question 2: "Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed."
John F. Kennedy
Osama bin Laden
Jesus Christ
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln

Question 3: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Adolf Hitler
George Washington
Mahatma Gandhi
Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin

Question 4: "Freedom is not worth having if it does include the freedom to make mistakes."
Penn Jillette
Mahatma Gandhi
Ron Paul
Abraham Lincoln
George W. Bush

Question 5: "I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
Alexander Hamilton
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
George Carlin

Question 6: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Benjamin Franklin
George W. Bush

Question 7: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country."
Bill Maher
Mark Twain
John Adams
Jane Fonda
Bertrand Russell

Question 8: "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton

Question 9: "The nine most terrifying words in English are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Bill O'Reilly
Benjamin Franklin

Question 10: "What luck for rulers that men do not think."
Josef Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx
George Washington
Pol Pot

Question 11: "That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
Thomas Jefferson
Ron Paul
Barry Goldwater
Abraham Lincoln
Adam Smith

Question 12: "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
Jesus Christ
Mohammed

Question 13: "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Sam Harris
Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Dawkins
Madeline O'Hare
David Hume

Question 14: "Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."
Maximilien Robespierre
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 15: "Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
William Shakespeare
Voltaire
Ricky Gervais
Abraham Lincoln
Walt Disney

Question 16: "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
Richard Dawkins
Bertrand Russell
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Carl Sagan

Question 17: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Maximilien Robespierre
Susan B. Anthony
Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 18: "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Maximilien Robespierre

Question 19: "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill
Douglas Adams
Christopher Hitchens

Question 20: "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Voltaire
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell
Thomas Paine

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