Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

• The greatest deliberative body in the world…has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Politics, Service

  Tags in Credo, Creed, Expected

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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Patriotism, Popularity, Controversy, Character, Courage

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tact, Thinking, Communication

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

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like

• We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Indifference, Tolerance

• In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Love

• 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 measures.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Leadership

• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, 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

  Tags in Patriotism

• I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Conservatives

• Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Popularity

Margaret Chase Smith (11)

Birth:	14th December, 1897
Death:	29th May, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative and a U.S. Senator from 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.

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