"I do not want and the United States does not want to have forever spent its hard-earned wealth and the lives of its young men in the defense of nations whose own conduct begs the question of whether they themselves wish to be defended. We must dare to be different. We must dare to demand of ourselves and others a peace which would have a foundation other than the absence of war." — Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
Smith is best known for her 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" criticizing
- A
President Truman's firing of MacArthur
- B
FDR's New Deal
- C
Eisenhower's military spending
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Senator Joseph McCarthy's tactics
Explanation
The Maine Republican Smith's 1950 Senate floor declaration was the earliest GOP rebuke of McCarthy's red-baiting.