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Presidential Wisdom V
Cryptography
In Cryptography teasers, a phrase or expressions has been encoded in some way (frequently by replacing letters with other letters). You need to figure out the encoding method and then decode the message to find the answer.Cryptography
Below are encoded quotes from the twenty-first through twenty-fifth presidents of the United States. Your task is to first decode them, and then correctly assign them to the presidents who spoke them.
21) "SUTS'L TEE T ITD GTD UKCB NKW HPWFDR UFL EFNBSFIB - SK LBS TD BATICEB - TDH ZUBD UB FL HBTH, SK YB TD FDLCFWTSFKD NKW UFLSKWQ."
22) "SUB FDHFLGWFIFDTSB HBDPDGFTSFKD KN SUB WFGU FL IFLGUFBXKPL.... DK CKKW ITD ZTL BXBW ITHB WFGUBW KW UTCCFBW YQ FS. FS FL OPFSB TL FEEKRFGTE SK HBLCFLB T ITD YBGTPLB UB FL WFGU TL YBGTPLB UB FL CKKW. DKS ZUTS T ITD UTL, YPS ZUTS UB FL, LBSSEBL UFL GETLL. ZB GTD DKS WFRUS ITSSBWL YQ STMFDR NWKI KDB ZUTS UB UTL UKDBLSEQ TGOPFWBH SK YBLSKZ PCKD TDKSUBW ZUTS UB UTL DKS BTWDBH."
23) "T ITD FL MDKZD YQ SUB GKICTDQ UB MBBCL, TDH TELK YQ SUB GKICTDQ NWKI ZUFGU UB FL MBCS KPS."
24) "UB IKGML SUB CBKCEB ZUK CWKCKLBL SUTS SUB RKXBWDIBDS LUTEE CWKSBGS SUB WFGU SUTS SUBQ FD SPWD ITQ GTWB NKW SUB ETYKWFDR CKKW."
25) "IBD ITQ HFB, YPS SUB NTYWFGL KN KPW NWBB FDLSFSPSFKDL WBITFD PDLUTMBD."
21) "SUTS'L TEE T ITD GTD UKCB NKW HPWFDR UFL EFNBSFIB - SK LBS TD BATICEB - TDH ZUBD UB FL HBTH, SK YB TD FDLCFWTSFKD NKW UFLSKWQ."
22) "SUB FDHFLGWFIFDTSB HBDPDGFTSFKD KN SUB WFGU FL IFLGUFBXKPL.... DK CKKW ITD ZTL BXBW ITHB WFGUBW KW UTCCFBW YQ FS. FS FL OPFSB TL FEEKRFGTE SK HBLCFLB T ITD YBGTPLB UB FL WFGU TL YBGTPLB UB FL CKKW. DKS ZUTS T ITD UTL, YPS ZUTS UB FL, LBSSEBL UFL GETLL. ZB GTD DKS WFRUS ITSSBWL YQ STMFDR NWKI KDB ZUTS UB UTL UKDBLSEQ TGOPFWBH SK YBLSKZ PCKD TDKSUBW ZUTS UB UTL DKS BTWDBH."
23) "T ITD FL MDKZD YQ SUB GKICTDQ UB MBBCL, TDH TELK YQ SUB GKICTDQ NWKI ZUFGU UB FL MBCS KPS."
24) "UB IKGML SUB CBKCEB ZUK CWKCKLBL SUTS SUB RKXBWDIBDS LUTEE CWKSBGS SUB WFGU SUTS SUBQ FD SPWD ITQ GTWB NKW SUB ETYKWFDR CKKW."
25) "IBD ITQ HFB, YPS SUB NTYWFGL KN KPW NWBB FDLSFSPSFKDL WBITFD PDLUTMBD."
Hint
Vowel encoding is as follows:A=T
E=B
I=F
O=K
U=P
Answer
The solutions are given in the order in which each president served, followed by the president's name and term in office. The answer key is below.25) "Men may die, but the fabrics of our free institutions remain unshaken." - Chester A. Arthur 1881 - 1885
24) "He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor." - Grover Cleveland 1885 - 1889
22) "The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned." - Benjamin Harrison 1889 - 1893
23) "A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out." - Grover Cleveland 1893 - 1897
21) "That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." - William McKinley 1897 - 1901
A=T . . N=D
B=Y . . O=K
C=G . . P=C
D=H . . Q=O
E=B . . R=W
F=N . . S=L
G=R . . T=S
H=U . . U=P
I=F . . V=X
J=V . . W=Z
K=M . . X=A
L=E . . Y=Q
M=I . . Z=J
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