10 Top Joseph McCarthy Quotes

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

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I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

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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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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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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.

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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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Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

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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.

War Home

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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.

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