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"Don't Quote Me..." Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

BCGA

This is a puzzle cache. The cache is not hidden at the above coordinates, but it is within 4 km. The idea is based on a cool cache that I found recently in sunny Surrey.

Your challenge is to identify the speakers of the quotes that are listed.

First, write the name of the speaker beside each quote:



1) "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

2) "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

3) "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."

4) "Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked."

5) “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

6) "I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."

7) "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

8) "When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again."

9) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

10) “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

11) "A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

12) "A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."

13) "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."

14) "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."

Now write the names of the speakers in order in the blanks below, with no spaces between them:

Now fill in the blanks below with the letters that are above each number:

Coords

These are the coordinates for the cache!!

You can check your answers for this puzzle on Geochecker.com.

NO

Hey, my prediction about Obama was right!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. N=0 2. Ernpu sbe gur cvfgby... 3. Gung'f Obognvy Zga. gb gur fbhgu...

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)