Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Mathias

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Charles Mathias

Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney. A Republican, he served as a member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1961, and of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 6th congressional district of Maryland from 1961 to 1969.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere. — © Charles Mathias
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.
I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.
Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.
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