Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within” Speech

( 1950 ) Commentary by Carl Rollyson, Baruch Colelge, The City University of New York

“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down—they are truly down.” - Paragraph 10
“As one of our outstanding historical figures once said, ‘When a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.'” - Paragraph 15

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Library of Congress)

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