"Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work."
"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."
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Source: Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950.
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