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Jay Vivian Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961), known as Whittaker Chambers, was an American editor who denounced his Communist spying and became respected by the American Conservative movement during the 1950s.

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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing. ' That is the tone of innocence.

Answer, Covered, Guilt, Men, Seldom, Tone

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

Charge, Common, Differences, Men, See, Unable

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

Fact, Facts, Man, Men, Primarily, Witness

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.

Century, Civilization, Generations, Struggle

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

Impossible, Lazarus, Like, Return

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

Communisim, Losing, Sides, Socialism, Under

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

Crisis, Degree, Degrees, God, World

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Essentially, Lenin, Mind, Revolutionary, Trotsky

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Doe, Guilt, Innocence, Outraged, Utters

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Overcoming, Sadness, Suffering, Touched, Wisdom

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Century, Picked, Quiet, Reflection

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Class, Communists, Republican, United, United States

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Communism, Concentrated, Evil, Focus, See

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.

Children, Father, Lurking, Memories, Memory

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.

Came, Communism, Irreconcilable, Men, Persons, Two

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.

Civilization, Defend, Extremity, Issues, Man, Men

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Communism, Fruit, Rise, War, World

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

Dies, Faith, Human, Human Society, Humans, Live By

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Cross, Crosses, Crucified, Every Man, Man, Men

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. 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. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

Cost, Death, Hope, Men, Pain, Struggle

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