Margaret Chase Smith Quotes

• 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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• Los que más gritamos sobre el americanismo somos con demasiada frecuencia los que... ignoramos algunos de los principios básicos del americanismo: el derecho a criticar, el derecho a tener creencias impopulares, el derecho a protestar, el derecho al pensamiento independiente.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Independent, Rights, America

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

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• El camino correcto no siempre es el más popular y fácil. Defender lo correcto cuando es impopular es una verdadera prueba de carácter moral.

  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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• Mi credo es que el servicio público debe ser algo más que hacer un trabajo de forma eficiente y honesta. Debe ser una dedicación completa al pueblo y a la nación con pleno reconocimiento de que todo ser humano tiene derecho a la cortesía y la consideración, que la crítica constructiva no sólo debe esperarse, sino que debe buscarse, que las difamaciones no sólo deben esperarse, sino que deben combatirse, que el honor debe ganarse, no comprarse.

  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

  Inspiración, Éxito, Aliento

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

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• El servicio público debe ser algo más que hacer un trabajo de forma eficiente y honesta. Debe ser una dedicación completa al pueblo y a la nación.

  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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• La cobardía moral que nos impide decir lo que pensamos es tan peligrosa para este país como la palabrería irresponsable.

  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

  Gobierno, Manos, Gente

  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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• No debemos permitir que la tolerancia degenere en indiferencia.

  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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• Todo ser humano tiene derecho a la cortesía y la consideración. La crítica constructiva no sólo se espera, sino que se busca.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Expectations, Criticism, Courtesy

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

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• La fuerza, a la americana, no se manifiesta mediante amenazas de persecución penal o métodos de estado policial.
  El liderazgo no se manifiesta mediante la coacción, ni siquiera contra los resentidos. La grandeza no se manifiesta mediante un pragmatismo ilimitado, que concede tanta importancia a que el fin justifique cualquier medio y cualquier método.

  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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• El Senado se ha degradado hasta convertirse en un foro de odio y difamación protegido por el escudo de la inmunidad parlamentaria.

  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

  Creer, Gente, Creencia

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