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When sworn in by Chief Justice John Marshall, President-elect John Quincy Adams stated, "people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin."

False. President Monroe was the one who stated this. He took the oath of office from the House Chamber because the Washington Capitol was under construction after a fire.

In his first and only term in office, this president told the American people, "Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings...or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen."

President James A. Garfield. President-elect James A. Garfield was given the oath of office by Chief Justice Morrison Waite while it was snowing outside.

Civil War President Abraham Lincoln once told his supporters, "Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon...except to give a fair chance to develop what there is good..."

False. This occured during President U.S. Grant's re-election ceremony. The entire time, the temperature did not rise above zero all day. Because of this, some avoided ceremonies near the Washington Capitol.

President-elect________ stated, "Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship."

Theodore Roosevelt. Upon the death of President William McKinley, President Teddy Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1905. At his ceremony, President Roosevelt's was one of the largest and most diverse of any that has ever happened.

After very turbulent and trying times in American history, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, "The passion for freedom is on the rise...there can be no nobler...task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning."

False. False! President Jimmy Carter was the one to say this. President Carter served as president from 1977-1981. He had many jobs before becoming president. They included an engineer, peanut farmer, and governor of Georgia.

President Walter Mondale stated at his ceremony, "We need harmony, we have had a chorus of discordant voices."

False. The answer is false. Walter Mondale never served as president! He did however serve as Jimmy Carter's Vice-President from 1977-1981. President George H.W. Bush is the one who said this. The first President Bush served as president from 1989-1993.

Administered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, President-elect _________ said "Good citizens may well claim the protection of good laws and...but a claim for office is what the people of a republic should never recognize."

Franklin Pierce. President Franklin Pierce is the only President of the United States ever to choose "to affirm" rather than "to swear" the executive oath of office. He did this based on his religous beliefs.

A two term governor and president, this 20th century president said, "Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out...forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way."

President William J. Clinton. In 1996, Bill Clinton was the first Democratic president to be re-elected to a second term since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

President Coolidge stated, "if we wish to continue to be distinctively American, we must continue to make that term comprehensive enough to embrace...a civilized and enlightened people."

True. When running for office, President Calvin Coolidge ran on the slogan "Keep Cool with Coolidge."

One president stated in his second inaugural address, "By our efforts, we have lit a...fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world."

George W. Bush. The Bush family is the second family in history to have both a father and son to serve as president. The first family to do this of course was the Adams family.