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

— Joseph N. Welch Army–McCarthy hearings (1954)

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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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