Witness Quote by 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.”

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It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which…

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In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

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On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time -…

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When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs…

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“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…

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In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

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It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that…

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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of…

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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition…

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“be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He…

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Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get…

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