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Joseph McCarthy
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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 (1908–1957) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (February 9,1950), as quoted at History Matters
“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 (1908–1957) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (February 18, 1954), as quoted in A Conspiracy So Immense (2005) by David M. Oshinsky
“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 — of being a traitor to the people who gave him a position of great trust. The secretary of state, in attempting to justify his continued devotion to the man who sold out the Christian world to the atheistic world, referred to Christ's Sermon on the Mount as a justification and reason therefore, and the reaction of the American people to this would have made the heart of Abraham Lincoln happy. When this pompous diplomat in ugly pants, with a phony British accent, proclaimed to the American people that Christ on the Mount endorsed communism, high treason, and betrayal of a sacred trust, the blasphemy was so great that it awakened the dormant indignation of the American people. 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 ugly so ugly that we may have a new birth of national honesty and decency in government.”
Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (February 9, 1950), as quoted at Civics Online
“Good evening. Mr. Edward R. Murrow, Educational Director of the Columbia Broadcasting System, devoted his program to an attack on the work of the United States Senate Investigating Committee, and on me personally as its chairman, and over the past four years he has made repeated attacks upon me and those fighting Communists... Now, ordinarily--I would not take time out from the important work at hand to answer Murrow. However, in this case, I feel justified in doing so because Murrow is a symbol, a leader and the cleverest of the jackal pack which is always found at the throat of anyone who dares to expose individual Communists and traitors.”
Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source