QUIZZES
WHO SAID IT: A QUIZ ON PRESIDENTIAL WIT AND WISDOM
Think you know your presidents? Take this quiz and see if you can match the style, wit, and ideology of these memorable lines to the right POTUS.
Question 1 of 9
“I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
Origin of why
before 900; Middle English; Old English hwī, hwȳ, instrumental case of hwætwhat; cognate with Old Norse hvī
usage note for why
See reason.
Words nearby why
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British Dictionary definitions for why
Word Origin for why
Old English hwī; related to Old Norse hvī, Gothic hveileiks what kind of, Latin quī
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