Quotes tagged ‘Red Scare’

“Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The truckman, the trashman and the policeman on my block may call me Alice, but you may not.”

— Alice Roosevelt, amazon.com

“General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no. General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, w…”

— Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Sterling Hayden, imdb.com

“I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“Invasion and conquest by Communist armies would be a horror beyond our capacity to imagine. But invasion and conquest by Communist ideas of right and wrong would be just as bad.”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.”

— Harry S Truman, bartleby.com

“I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist.…”

— Harry S Truman, bartleby.com