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Presidential Wisdom IV
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 sixteenth through twentieth presidents of the United States. Your task is to first decode them, and then correctly assign them to the presidents who spoke them.
16) "K LMTC MBUCV KS CTCOW KSIUMSBC XOAD M BASIBKCSUKAYI VCIKOC UA VA RLMU RMI OKZLU, BASIUKUYUKASMF, RKULKS ULC FMR, MSV XAO ULC TCOW NCIU KSUCOCIUI AX ULC RLAFC JCAJFC. XMKFYOCI LMTC NCCS COOAOI AX HYVZDCSU, SAU AX KSUCSU."
17) "...ULMU RC LCOC LKZLFW OCIAFTC ULMU ULCIC VCMV ILMFF SAU LMTC VKCV KS TMKS; ULMU ULKI SMUKAS ILMFF LMTC M SCR NKOUL AX XOCCVAD; MSV ULMU ULKI ZATCOSDCSU AX ULC JCAJFC, NW ULC JCAJFC, XAO ULC JCAJFC, ILMFF SAU JCOKIL XOAD ULC CMOUL."
18) "JATCOUW KI YSBADXAOUMNFC; NYU SKSC UKDCI AYU AX UCS ULC NCIU ULKSZ ULMU BMS LMJJCS UA M WAYSZ DMS KI UA NC UAIICV ATCONAMOV MSV BADJCFFCV UA IKSG AO IRKD."
19) "KS MTAKVKSZ ULC MJJCMOMSBC AX CTKF, K MD SAU IYOC NYU K LMTC IADCUKDCI YSSCBCIIMOKFW VCJOKTCV DWICFX MSV AULCOI AX KSSABCSU CSHAWDCSUI."
20) "KX ULC OMNNFC RCOC FAJJCV AXX MU ASC CSV MSV ULC MOKIUABOMUI MU ULC AULCO, MFF RAYFV NC RCFF RKUL ULC BAYSUOW."
16) "K LMTC MBUCV KS CTCOW KSIUMSBC XOAD M BASIBKCSUKAYI VCIKOC UA VA RLMU RMI OKZLU, BASIUKUYUKASMF, RKULKS ULC FMR, MSV XAO ULC TCOW NCIU KSUCOCIUI AX ULC RLAFC JCAJFC. XMKFYOCI LMTC NCCS COOAOI AX HYVZDCSU, SAU AX KSUCSU."
17) "...ULMU RC LCOC LKZLFW OCIAFTC ULMU ULCIC VCMV ILMFF SAU LMTC VKCV KS TMKS; ULMU ULKI SMUKAS ILMFF LMTC M SCR NKOUL AX XOCCVAD; MSV ULMU ULKI ZATCOSDCSU AX ULC JCAJFC, NW ULC JCAJFC, XAO ULC JCAJFC, ILMFF SAU JCOKIL XOAD ULC CMOUL."
18) "JATCOUW KI YSBADXAOUMNFC; NYU SKSC UKDCI AYU AX UCS ULC NCIU ULKSZ ULMU BMS LMJJCS UA M WAYSZ DMS KI UA NC UAIICV ATCONAMOV MSV BADJCFFCV UA IKSG AO IRKD."
19) "KS MTAKVKSZ ULC MJJCMOMSBC AX CTKF, K MD SAU IYOC NYU K LMTC IADCUKDCI YSSCBCIIMOKFW VCJOKTCV DWICFX MSV AULCOI AX KSSABCSU CSHAWDCSUI."
20) "KX ULC OMNNFC RCOC FAJJCV AXX MU ASC CSV MSV ULC MOKIUABOMUI MU ULC AULCO, MFF RAYFV NC RCFF RKUL ULC BAYSUOW."
Hint
Vowel encoding is as follows:A=M
E=C
I=K
O=A
U=Y
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.17) "...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln 1861 - 1865
20) "If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country." - Andrew Johnson 1865 - 1869
16) "I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent." - Ulysses S. Grant 1869 - 1877
19) "In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments." - Rutherford B. Hayes 1877 - 1881
18) "Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim." - James Garfield 1881
A=M . . N=S
B=N . . O=A
C=B . . P=J
D=V . . Q=P
E=C . . R=O
F=X . . S=I
G=Z . . T=U
H=L . . U=Y
I=K . . V=T
J=H . . W=R
K=G . . X=E
L=F . . Y=W
M=D . . Z=Q
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