"I know that I am leaving the winning……" — Whittaker Chambers
"I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism."
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35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
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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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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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