How well do you know Princeton’s presidential candidates? Match these quotes with the alumni who said them.

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1. “Public confidence in the integrity of the government is indispensable to faith in democracy.”

A. Ralph Nader ’55

B. Bill Bradley ’65

C. Adlai Stevenson II ’22


2. “What the flat tax will do is enable the economy to grow, to enable people who want to get ahead to get ahead.”

A. Steve Forbes ’70

B. Bill Bradley ’65

C. Ted Cruz ’92


3. “Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom.”

A. Ralph Nader ’55

B. Ted Cruz ’92

C. Steve Forbes ’70


4. “Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.”

A. James Madison 1771

B. Aaron Burr Jr. 1772

C. Woodrow Wilson 1879


5. “The tragic events … have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.”

A. James Madison 1771

B. Norman Thomas 1905

C. Woodrow Wilson 1879


6. “Our present two-party system lives on the strength of organization rather than of principle. Both parties belong to the same general set of masters.”

A. Ralph Nader ’55

B. Norman Thomas 1905

C. Ted Cruz ’92


ANSWERS: 1. C; 2. A; 3. B; 4. A; 5. C; 6. B.