Joseph McCarthy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205â€”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 #Names #Hands
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,
-- Joseph McCarthy

#Mccarthyism #Sleeves #Americanism
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
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 â€” they are truly down.
-- Joseph McCarthy

#Champion #Gentleman #Atheism
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.
-- Joseph McCarthy

#Scary #Atheism #Battle
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
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
I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.
-- Joseph McCarthy

#Rainbow #Waiting #Littles
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
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
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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