Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

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• I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Fear, Party, Ignorance

  Speech in Senate, 1 June 1950 See Blasco-Ibáñez 1; Grantland Rice 2

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• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Independent, Rights, America

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of conscience”

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• The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Happiness, Courage, Integrity

  NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

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• The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Religious, Independent, Exercise

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Unity, Enemy, Want

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Party, Believe, People

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  "Nation: Madam Candidate", content.time.com. February 7, 1964.

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• Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Tired, America, Sick

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Country, Mind, Moral

  NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

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• Women administer the home. They set the rules, enforce them, mete out justice for violations. Thus, like Congress, they legislate; like the Executive, they administer; like the courts, they interpret the rules. It is an ideal experience for politics.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Home, Justice, Congress

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• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Respect, Communication, Caring

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• It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  People, Silence, Violence

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Government, Hands, People

  NEA Journal : The Journal of the National Education Association‎ Vol. 41, 1952.

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• The key to security is public information.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Keys, Information, Security

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• We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Tolerance, Degenerates, Indifference

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Honor, Constructive Criticism, Public Service

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• We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Country, Confusion, Growing

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Expectations, Criticism, Courtesy

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods.
  Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Mean, Greatness, Police

  "Declaration of Conscience‎" by Margaret Chase Smith, (p. 293), 1972.

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• I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Trials

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Hate, Character, Presidential

  1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by Senator Joseph R McCarthy.

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• Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Freedom, May

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• And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Believe, People, Belief

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