Quotes by Margaret Chase Smith - Page 1

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Daughter
Encouraging
Encouragement
Inspirational
Optimistic
Success
Uplifting
Telling
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Courage
Happiness
Smile
Health
Character
Easy
Easy Way
Integrity
Moral
Moral Character
Right Way
Standing
Way
Always
Character True Way
True
Unpopular
Popular
Right
Test
True Test
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I always try to think before I talk.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Resolution
Thinking
Trying
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The key to security is public information.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Information
Keys
Security
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Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Freedom
May
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We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Degenerates
Indifference
Tolerance
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Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Constructive Criticism
Honor
Public Service
Bought
Earned
Fought
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Country
Cowardice
Dangerous
Irresponsible
Mind
Moral
Talk
Minds
Speaking
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I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Believe
Mind
Soul
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Consideration
Constructive Criticism
Courtesy
Criticism
Entitled
Expectations
Expected
Human Being
Sought
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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.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Opportunity
Communication
Thinking
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Enemy
Unity
Want
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Ends
Greatness
Mean
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Greatness
Pragmatism
Premium
Unlimited
Justifying
Manifested
Methods
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Fear
Ignorance
Party
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Jobs
Dedication
Honestly
People
Public Service
Job
More
Doing
Nation
Complete
Public
Efficiently
Must
Service
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Character
Hate
Presidential
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Government
Hands
People
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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.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Causes
Too Much
Basic
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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.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Corporations
Long
Unions
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Confusion
Country
Growing
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Believe
Party
People
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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.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Character
Criticism
Self
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Respect
Communication
Caring
Thinking
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Belief
Believe
People
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Home
Congress
Justice
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
America
Independent
Rights
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
People
Silence
Violence
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
America
Sick
Tired
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Exercise
Independent
Religious
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Freedom Of Speech
Thinking
Trials
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Greatness
Mean
Police
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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.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Heart
Selfish
Taken
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I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith / Former U.s. Senator
Running
Real
Thinking
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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 / Former U.s. Senator
Jobs
Dedication
People
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