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• A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one…
• The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…
• A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman…
• No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been…
• Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
• Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself…
• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after…
• A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for…
• A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
• At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity…
• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the…

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