It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time -… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“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… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
