Whittaker Chambers

“History is not written in terms of black and white, but in shades of gray.”

“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.”

“A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”

“The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.”

“What I had been fell from me like a snake's skin. What I was seemed contained in the single word: Witness.”

“The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.”

“Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else.”

“An ex-communist is not a man who has merely lost his faith. He is a man who has fought his way from a dark place back to light and life.”

“I was a witness. I do not mean a witness for the Government or against Alger Hiss... I mean a witness to God's grace and to the fortifying power of faith.”

“In the end, the only thing that counts is the faith and courage that we have brought to our life.”

“Man without God is a beast, and never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness.”

“The Hiss case is not a mere espionage case. It is a struggle for the soul of a nation.”

“This is a war. It is a war for the soul of man.”

“My brother's suicide was the first great wound in my life. The second was Communism.”

“The roots of the crisis are not economic or political. The roots of the crisis are spiritual and moral.”

“He who has lived in the house of revolution will never be surprised by the extremes of misery and cruelty.”