Margaret chase smith quotes

Margaret Chase Smith (14 December1897 - 29 May1995) was an U.S.politician, a Republican Senator from Maine, the first woman to be elected to both the US House and the Senate, and the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the US Presidency at a major party convention (1964 Republican).

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little.

She was one of the first Republican Members of Congress to criticize Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.

Quotes

• 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 too impulsively without thinking. I am not advocating in the slightest that we become mutes with our voices stilled because of fear of criticism of what we might say. That is moral cowardice.

  Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly.

• Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
• The right way is not always the popular and easy way.
• The right way is not always the popular and easy way.
• “The right way is not always the popular and easy way.

And moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is