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Witness
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"Witness" Quotes

A former Communist spy testifies against Alger Hiss, exposing the extent of Soviet infiltration in the US government.

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In the end, the Communist threat is not the weapons that they will use against us. It is the ideas that they will plant in the minds of the American people.

Whittaker Chambers

politicsideology

A man is not a whole and complete man, unless he owns a house and the ground it stands on.

Whittaker Chambers

homeownership

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

Whittaker Chambers

faithreligion

Man without mysticism is a monster.

Whittaker Chambers

spirituality

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions when he is not even ready to wear a wreath around his head for them.

Whittaker Chambers

convictioncourage

The crisis of the Western world is a crisis in the will of its people to survive.

Whittaker Chambers

societysurvival

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

Whittaker Chambers

purposebelief

The roots of the world's disorder are deeper than in any one form of government or ideology.

Whittaker Chambers

worlddisorder

A man who is not a mystery to himself is a man without a self.

Whittaker Chambers

self-discovery

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

Whittaker Chambers

ideologyfaith