Margaret Chase Smith Criticism Quotations

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

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.

Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.