Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Margaret Chase Smith (American Politician)

Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was a United States 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 was among the first to criticize the tactics of McCarthyism in her 1950 speech, “Declaration of Conscience”.

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Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.
Margaret Chase Smith
Topics: Freedom

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
Topics: Communication, Audiences

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith
Topics: Trying, Challenges

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith
Topics: Criticism

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 AmericanismThe right to criticize. The right to hold unpopular beliefs. The right to protest. The right of independent thought.
Margaret Chase Smith
Topics: Criticism

The key to security is public information.
Margaret Chase Smith
Topics: Information

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