"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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"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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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

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"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."

Winning

"I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it."

God

"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."

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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."

Death

"Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."

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"The Communist vision is the vision of man without God."

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"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."

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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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"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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"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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