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Joseph N. Welch Quotes

1890–1960 United States

Joseph Nye Welch (22 October 1890 – 6 October 1960) was an American lawyer, and the head counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation by Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations for Communist activities. Welch played a Michigan judge in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959).

United States
Lawyers

Also known as: Joseph N Welch, Joseph Nye Welch, Joseph Welch

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Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.

Army–McCarthy hearings (1954)

Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. 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?

Army–McCarthy hearings (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph N. Welch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.