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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

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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.

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