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Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods.
Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented.
Declaration of Conscience (1972)
When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
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.
NEA Journal : The Journal of the National Education Association Vol. 41 (1952)
As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
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.
The Teacher's Quotation Book : Little Lessons On Learning (1986)
As a United States Senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as "Communists" or "Fascists" by their opponents.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
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 Americanism
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
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 humour is to be earned, and bought.
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 but not bought.