"A nation's life is about as long as…" — Whittaker Chambers

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

— Whittaker Chambers

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35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so…
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man…
No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could…
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…
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives…
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a…
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…
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist,…
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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