Joseph R. McCarthy Quotes

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

Every department in Washington…contained numerous traitors and spies.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

I sometimes wonder what use there is in trying to protect the West against fancied external threats when the signs of disintegration within are so striking

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

While there are still imperialist aggressors, the state that has no defense power of its own to protect its sovereignty against the internal and external enemies is, in fact, not a fully independent and sovereign state.

Our system must remain solvent as we attempt a solution to this great problem of security. Else we have lost the battle from within that we are trying to win from without.

We need to defend against weaknesses within and enemies without, using the tools of civil society and hard power. We don't have to pick one over the other.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.