"Have you left no sense of decency?" (Joseph Welch)

"Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. ... It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me."

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

SOURCE: From an exchange between Joseph Welch, representing the U.S. Army, and Sen Joseph McCarthy , delivered 9 June 1954, during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in Washington, D.C. (Details can be found at “Have You No Sense of Decency”: The Army-McCarthy Hearings