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.

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

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

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

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

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.

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