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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.

— Margaret Chase Smith Declaration of Conscience‎ (1972)

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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)

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