Whittaker Chambers Quotes

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

Whittaker Chambers

• Freedom
• Communism
• Communist
• Must
• Irreconcilable

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• A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

  

  Whittaker Chambers
  • Freedom
  • Communism
  • Communist