15 Joseph McCarthy Quotes

Joseph McCarthy quotes

1. 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.

2. 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. ... As you know, very recently the Secretary of State proclaimed his loyalty to a man guilty of what has always been considered as the most abominable of all crimes - being a traitor to the people who gave him a position of great trust - high treason. ... He has lighted the spark which is resulting in a moral uprising and will end only when the whole sorry mess of twisted, warped thinkers are swept from the national scene so that we may have a new birth of honesty and decency in government.

3. Any man who protects Communists is not fit to wear that uniform!

4. I see red!

5. Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

6. The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

7. Thank God somebody's doing it.

8. When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

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

2. An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.