Firearms Quote by Ernest Hemingway

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

— Nat Hentoff

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

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

— Pat Buchanan

“There are a dozen books about McCarthy. Yet there is no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to him…

— David McCullough

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they…

— David Horowitz

“Of the trials that Eisenhower encountered in politics, McCarthy’s behavior was the most difficult to abide. In his private correspondence, Eisenhower repeatedly conveyed his…

— John A. Farrell

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

— Desi Arnaz

“Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Trump survived all of this, seized the Republican nomination, and won, because in the end, he connected with a particular kind of voter who…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Teddy McCarthy to John McCarthy, no relation, John McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation.”

— Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against…

— Ann Coulter

“This hostility against intellectual and cultural elites had antecedents in Senator Joseph McCarthy’s attacks in the 1950s, and arguably more generally forms a persistent…

— Ian Haney López