Joseph McCarthy Quotes

• 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.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Jobs, Republican, Traitor

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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.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Party, Hands, Names

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

  Joseph McCarthy

  Scary, Atheism, Battle

  Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

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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

  Jobs, War, Home

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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 McCarthy

  War, Party, Men

  "'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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• McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Mccarthyism, Sleeves, Americanism

  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 McCarthy

  Men, Honor, Uniforms

  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 McCarthy

  Champion, Gentleman, Atheism

  Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

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

  Joseph McCarthy

  Chasing Rainbows, Waiting, Littles

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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.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Cities, Nerves, Asceticism

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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.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Book, Thinking, Answers

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