Fear of Communism Quotes

Our fear of communism led us to embrace any dictator that joined us in that fear.

Chamberlain and Halifax were more afraid of the spread of Communism than they were of Hitler or Mussolini.

In the atmosphere existing in this country today, the charge that someone is a Communist is so common that hardly anyone active in public life escapes it.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism.

I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.

In the McCarthy era, people were losing their jobs--there was this blanket feeling that no one should not say anything about anything, McCarthy and his people were just sitting around calling meetings, calling up people before them, and ruining their lives.