Match iconic lines to the people who spoke them across politics, science, sport, and literature. Some attributions are debated, so choose the name most traditionally credited.
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Who said it?
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Mikhail Gorbachev
“I have a dream.” Who delivered this line on August 28, 1963?
John Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Who said it?
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Who said it?
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
John Glenn
“To be, or not to be—that is the question.” Who wrote it?
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
“Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”). Who is credited with this report?
Julius Caesar
Cicero
Pompey
Augustus
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” Who is traditionally credited with this line?
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
George Washington
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” Who popularized this exact phrasing in 1839?
Oscar Wilde
Alexander Pope
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Voltaire
“Cogito, ergo sum” (“I think, therefore I am”). Who wrote it?
Galileo Galilei
René Descartes
Francis Bacon
Baruch Spinoza
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Who coined this boast?
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Sonny Liston
Starter
You recognize a few lines—keep pairing famous words with the voices behind them.
Solid
Solid ear for attribution—sharpen tricky cases and debated attributions.
Expert!
Quote-spotting ace—you map lines to speakers across eras with ease.
