I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.
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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
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Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers in Witness (1952)
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I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
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In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
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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 always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
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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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On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
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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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Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
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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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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
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Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
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