Top 25 Quotes by Margaret Chase Smith of 33 - Page 2

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

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

Running, Real, Thinking

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

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

Mean, Greatness, Ends

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

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

Believe, People, Belief

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

Selfish, Taken, Heart

Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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

Long, Unions, Corporations