--- title: "1 Alger-hiss Quotes By Whittaker Chambers" description: "1 Alger-hiss quotes by Whittaker Chambers. Plus more from Whittaker Chambers and more Alger-hiss sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/whittaker-chambers-13841_alger-hiss_throughout-the-most-trying-phase-of-the_2087575.jpg" --- > [“Throughout the most trying phase of the Case, Nixon and his family, and sometimes his parents, were at our farm, encouraging me and comforting my family. My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname. To them, he is always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/throughout-the-most-trying-phase-of-the-case-nixon-and-his-family-and/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/whittaker-chambers-13841_alger-hiss_throughout-the-most-trying-phase-of-the_2087575.jpg) ## More by Whittaker Chambers > [It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/it-is-popular-to-call-it-a-crisis-of-the-western-world-it-is-in-fact/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/in-1937-i-began-like-lazarus-the-impossible-return/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/on-a-scale-personal-enough-to-be-felt-by-all-but-big-enough-to-be/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/when-you-understand-what-you-see-you-will-no-longer-be-children-you/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [ “It \[Communism\] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/it-communism-is-not-new-it-is-in-fact-man-s-second-oldest-faith-its/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/in-the-united-states-the-working-class-are-democrats-the-middle-class/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/a-nation-s-life-is-about-as-long-as-its-reverential-memory/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/a-man-is-not-primarily-a-witness-against-something-that-is-only/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/it-is-in-fact-no-exaggeration-to-say-that-we-live-in-terror-that/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/the-rub-is-that-the-pursuit-of-happiness-as-an-end-in-itself-tends/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/every-man-is-crucified-upon-the-cross-of-himself/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/freedom-is-a-need-of-the-soul-and-nothing-else-it-is-in-striving/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [“be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/be-realized-when-in-1937-i-introduced-him-in-new-york-city-to-colonel/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/my-children-as-long-as-you-live-the-shadow-of-the-hiss-case-will/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) > [“The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whittaker-chambers/the-reality-cuts-across-our-minds-like-a-wound-whose-edges-crave-to/) [Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whittaker-chambers/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alger-hiss/whittaker-chambers/#itemlist", "name": "1 Alger-hiss Quotes By Whittaker Chambers", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Throughout the most trying phase of the Case, Nixon and his family, and sometimes his parents, were at our farm, encouraging me and comforting my family. My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname. To them, he is always \"Nixie,\" the kind and the good, about whom they will tolerate no nonsense. His somewhat martial Quakerism sometimes amused and always heartened me. 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