#mccarthy

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

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

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

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#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

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#mccarthyism #rolled #sleeves