It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

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

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.

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

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

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

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