Joseph McCarthy quotes
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“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”
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“McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,”
-- Joseph McCarthySource : Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) p. 8
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“Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.”
-- Joseph McCarthySource : Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.
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“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.”
-- Joseph McCarthySource : Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.
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“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.”
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“An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.”
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“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.”
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“I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.”
-- Joseph McCarthy -
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“While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.”
-- Joseph McCarthySource : "'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.
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“Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.”
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“The reason why we find ourselves in a position of impotency is not because the enemy has sent men to invade our shores, but rather because of the traitorous actions of those who have had all the benefits that the wealthiest nation on earth has had to offer - the finest homes, the finest college educations, and the finest jobs in Government we can give.”
-- Joseph McCarthy
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