Presidential Trivia (Jan. 19 & 20)
Answers will be posted tomorrow!
(1) True or False? George Washington once wrote: “Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for ‘is better to be alone than in bad Company.”
(2) Which President once quipped, “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.”
(3) Which President said: “[If] the freedom of Speech may be taken away—and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”
1) False. Washington did write out the 110 rules of civility at age 16, but they originated with French Jesuits in the 1590s. While he definitely strove to live by them, he did not write them.
2) Hoover
3) Washington.
1) True, 2) Coolidge, 3) Reagan