Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

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

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.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

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

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.