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Whittaker Chambers

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Whittaker Chambers

Harapan

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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Whittaker Chambers

Harapan

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

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Whittaker Chambers

Harapan

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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Whittaker Chambers

Harapan

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

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