Joseph McCarthy Quotes

1908–1957 United States

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (14 November 1908 - 2 May 1957) was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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Also known as: Joe McCarthy, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, McCarthy, Joseph, McCarthyism

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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.

speech before the Republican National Convention (1952)

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.

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.

I have here in my hand a list of 205 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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