A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

- Whittaker Chambers

... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulat…

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a cons…

- Whittaker Chambers

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 t…

- Whittaker Chambers

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

Man without mysticism is a monster.

- Whittaker Chambers

Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. F…

- Whittaker Chambers