#mccarthy

When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#feeling #inspirational #mccarthy #inspirational

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. ↗

— Julia Child

#history #julia-child #mccarthyism #politics #politics-of-the-united-states

Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#cormac-mccarthy #john-dunn #men

I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists. ↗

— Victor Kravchenko

#communists #mccarthyism #soviet-union #united-states #communism

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#enemy #fire #gave #mccarthy #moment

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. ↗

— Howard Dean

#descendant #john #john ashcroft #joseph #mccarthy

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#author #convention #distinction #given #hearts

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#come #him #i #like #mccarthy

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#american #among #before #communist #communists