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

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

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.

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.