Margaret Chase Smith Quotes
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.
Smith, Margaret Chase. Declaration of Conscience. Edited by William C. Lewis Jr., Doubleday, 1972.
1837 Grim and his brother were faculty members at the prestigious University of Gottingen. The King of Hanover—a region of Germany—revoked the existing liberal constitution and demanded that all university professors swear allegiance to him. Most of the faculty had always opposed such loyalty oaths, but when faced with the choice between their beliefs and their jobs, most signed the oath. The Grimm brothers did not and were fired.
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940–49) and a U.S. Senator (1949–73) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. A moderate Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience". Smith was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1964 presidential election, but was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party's convention.
