Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Topic

Modern life Cold War

Author

Reinhold Niebuhr

Source

Pious and Secular America

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Theologian Christian Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Pious and Secular America. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Joseph Welch

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Topic
Red Scare Cold War American politics
Speaker
Joseph Welch
Language
English
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Welch, Joseph. Quoted in No Sense of Decency, written by Robert Shogun. Ivan R. Dee, 2009, ch. 10. Originally a speech "Have You No Sense of Decency?" Army-McCarthy Hearings. 9 June 1954, Washington, DC, USA.