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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

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

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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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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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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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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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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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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 1st, 1901

Died: July 9th, 1961

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