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.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

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.

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

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

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

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.