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. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father – dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
I do not know any way to explain why God’s grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
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. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. Whittaker Chambers Read Quote
