Presidential Quotes
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.
The following cryptograms are quotes from past U.S. Presidents. Each letter stands for another, and no letter can stand for two (ex. 'A' cannot stand for 'B' and 'C')
1. IVVDALICO BDRXVOGP TLCS EOU DP KDDZ
HRIGLCB LP BDR OVCOOE BDRX DTU XOFRCICLDU.
LC LV MOCCOX MO IGDUO CSIU LU MIZ ADEFIUB.
--KODXKO TIVSLUKCDU
2. MRC CSOXO IXO IZQIUCIKOV CD MOLUK OGOACOZ
FXOVLZOUC. CSO ZIB IPCOX L TIV OGOACOZ, L
SIZ EB SLKS VASDDG KXIZOV AGIVVLPLOZ CDF
VOAXOC.
--XDUIGZ XOIKIU
3. SDT EIUB GOKV ZDOV I ZDK SIQO LP BDR AIGG
CSO CILG I GOK? PDRX. AIGGLUK I CILG I GOK
ZDOVU'C EINO LC I GOK.
--IMXISIE GLUADGU (If anyone can figure out why he said this, please tell me...)
4. LU I QOXB XOIG VOUVO, LC TLGG UDC MO DUO
EIU KDLUK CD CSO EDDU LC TLGG MO IU OUCLXO
UICLDU. PDX IGG DP RV ERVC TDXN CD FRC SLE
CSOXO.
--YDSU P. NOUUOZB
5. L AIU CSLUN DP UDCSLUK EDXO MDXLUK PDX CSO
IEOXLAIU FODFGO CSIU CD SIQO CD VLC LU
CSOLX GLQLUK XDDEV PDX I TSDGO SIGP SDRX
GDDNLUK IC EB PIAO DU CSOLX COGOQLVLDU
VAXOOUV.
--ZTLKSC Z. OLVOUSDTOX
HintLook at the Middle initial on 4 and 5. That should help a lot.
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Answer
1. Associate yourself with men of good
quality if you esteem your own reputation.
It is better be alone than in bad company.
--George Washington
2. But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
--Ronald Reagan
3. How many legs does a dog have if you call
the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg
doesn't make it a leg.
--Abraham Lincoln
4. In a very real sense, it will not be one
man going to the moon it will be an entire
nation. For all of us must work to put him
there.
--John F. Kennedy
5. I can think of nothing more boring for the
American people than to have to sit in
their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television
screens.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
The cipher is as follows:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R
I M A Z O P K S L Y N G E U D F H X
S T U V W X Y Z
V C R Q T J B W
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Comments
chuckelect 
Feb 24, 2005
| that was very well done! |
cloud_strife
Feb 24, 2005
| for number three quote,
i take it like this:
name is not important, what's important is the thing itself. or somewhere near that..  |
Mysterious  
Feb 25, 2005
|  Good job and fun!! I did find it easy but very very enjoyable.  Without the quote from Ronald Reagan, it would have taken much longer to solve!! Great Job!!!!!
The quote from Abraham Lincoln is basically about being honest and forthright. His point was that many politicians will conveniently rename something to soften the blow or to slide something by the voters . For example: when a new tax is added that people must pay, call it anything that you want but it is still a tax! They might rename it a surcharge, a fund fee, a voluntary reimbursement contribution, or a scholarship funding contribution. If you have to pay, it is still a tax. |
nuccha
Mar 02, 2005
| I just got lucky. My first guess for the first president is George Washington. Once the letters in his name got equivalents, everything else just fell into place. |
blablabla 
Mar 04, 2005
| I think I know what #3 means:
If a dog had five legs, it wouldn't have a tail. DUH!
- blablabla  |
i_am_hated
Mar 11, 2005
| wow....that will take several hours to figure out |
rac76
Mar 20, 2005
| It took a while for me to find the pattern, but once I did the puzzles became easy. I agree with mysterious in that the #3 quote is about telling the truth. I enjoyed this puzzle! |
smarty_blondy 
Aug 23, 2005
| Had to peek to look at the answer, but, i learned the names of some of your presidents. Learning something new each day |
kayleeskitties
Jan 22, 2006
| Loved this one! Kinda tough for me but still..... I almost died laughing on the last quote!  |
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