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“Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.”

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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 - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

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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 under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages…

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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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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 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 for a long while to come.

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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 of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only…

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Every plant which my heavenly father has not planted with be uprooted

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