One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.Pete Seeger
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I fought for peace in the fifties.
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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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