The American people are sick ...

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. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.
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 Margaret Chase Smith

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The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
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 Margaret Chase Smith
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.
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 Margaret Chase Smith
I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.
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 Margaret Chase Smith
Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.
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 Margaret Chase Smith
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.
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 Margaret Chase Smith