Top 11 Quotes by Joseph McCarthy

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.

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 State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—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, Hands, Names

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

Joseph McCarthy

Scary, Atheism, Battle

Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

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

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

"'Communists in Government Service,' McCarthy Says". Joseph McCarthy's Lincoln's birthday address to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling in West Virginia, www.senate.gov. February 9, 1950.

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph McCarthy

Mccarthyism, Sleeves, Americanism

Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) p. 8

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

Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.

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.

Joseph McCarthy

Champion, Gentleman, Atheism

Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

Joseph McCarthy

Chasing Rainbows, Waiting, Littles

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