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==McCarthy==
==McCarthy==
She is remembered for her famous [[Declaration of Conscience]] in the 1950 in which she said:
She is remembered for her famous [[Declaration of Conscience]] in the 1950 in which she said:
{{Cquote|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.
{{Cquote|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.
I don’t want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one party system.<ref>http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.html</ref>
I don’t want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one party system.<ref>http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.html</ref>
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Schmidt, Patricia L. ''Margaret Chase Smith: Beyond Convention.'' (1996). 392 pp.
* Schmidt, Patricia L. ''Margaret Chase Smith: Beyond Convention.'' (1996). 392 pp.