Irresponsible Talk Quotes by Margaret Chase Smith

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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…
• The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of…
• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
• Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the…
• I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own…
• Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk
• Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
• I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and…
• My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what…
• The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional…
• And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my…
• Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

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