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.

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

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.

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.

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

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

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

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.