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Martha Mitchell
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“Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution. It started with the colored people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For 20 years, there has been no discipline of children. You don't inhibit them even if they are threatening to break up the whole house. Now we are reaping the results. Margaret Mead caused a lot of the trouble. She advocates taking drugs and early marriages. She and those other spooks just want to get their names in the paper. A few years ago, if you did something wrong, you were sent to the principal's office. Today the Roman Catholic schools are about the only ones that have discipline.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's quite a comedown in many ways. We're not living on the same means that we had in Rye, N.Y. I had to sell my stock, and now we are having to dip into the till. I think the Government should give us free housing. We'll be happy to go back and make some money.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to go into dramatics and become an actress, but my mother wouldn't let me.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any woman who tries to influence a man in subtle ways is a fool. Every woman should influence her man, but she should do it as a full and open partner—and not in some secret fashion.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That isn't the issue. What the women in this country should be interested in and are getting interested in is to be treated on the same intellectual plane as the men. Once they are accepted on that basis, their equal rights will follow freely. After that we can go back to "Vive la difference!”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let it be known that any irregularities in my mental stability have been brought upon me by outside forces...namely the administration of King Richard Milhous Nixon. And some inside forces as well, I suppose; my husband, that gutless, despicable crook, John Newton Mitchell.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never would have been in a predicament like I am if I hadn't...left the South.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Nigel Rees in his book Why Do We Say …? (1987), .
“The most vocal of all the Cabinet members' wives, Mrs. Mitchell does not hesitate to offer her tart views.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“World War I had its Sergeant York; World War II, George Patton. But we have a much more dangerous fighter in our battle with the left, and she is even sometimes dangerous to the other sie.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Martha-isms such as "Anytime you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution," and "Adults like to be led. They would rather respond to a form of discipline" have made her a pillar of rectitude and moral resurgence to much of conservative America, a figure of ridicule to liberals and a public embarrassment to many a traditionalist Republican.”
Martha Mitchell (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source