Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representativeand a U.S. Senatorfrom Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. A moderate Republican, she is perhaps best remembered for her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience," in which she criticized the tactics of McCarthyism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 December 1897
CountryUnited States of America
Margaret Chase Smith quotes about
I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.
The key to security is public information.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.
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.
Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
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.
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.