"At issue was the question whether this man's……" — Whittaker Chambers
"At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another."
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Whittaker Chambers
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35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers has 35 quotes on this site.
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so…
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man…
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No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could…
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Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to…
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives…
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a…
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A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in…
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist,…
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