The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
Whittaker ChambersThe chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
Whittaker ChambersI do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker ChambersFor 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.
Whittaker Chambers