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“A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.”
― Whittaker Chambers

“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God.”
― Whittaker Chambers, Witness

“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.”
― Whittaker Chambers, Witness

“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.”
― Whittaker Chambers, Witness

“Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.”
― Whittaker Chambers

“The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.”
― Whittaker Chambers

“თქვენი ქართველობა იწყება ღირსებიდან და არა პირიქით!”
― Merab Mamardashvili

“ადამიანი იწყება ღირსებიდან და მას მხოლოდ საკუთარი ღირსების გავლით შეუძლია ჭეშმარიტად გააცნობიეროს თავი ამა თუ იმ ერის შვილად! ქართველობა არ არის ბიოლოგიური მოცემულობა – ეს არის ნება იყო ქართველი, ნება კი რაინდული ღირსების ფენომენია და მე თუ არა მაქვს ის, რამდენიც არ უნდა ინებოს ერმა თუ ბერმა მე ვერც კაცი ვიქნები და ვერც ქართველი!”
― Merab Mamardashvili

“რუსული სივრცე-დროის მეტაფიზიკურ თავისებურებად უნდა ჩაითვალოს ის ფენომენი, რომ საკუთარ თავს და შენს გარშემო მყოფთ ყოველი დღე უქციო ჯოჯოხეთად….. ეს მუდმივი ისტორიული კოლაფსია ორ დიდ, დასავლურ და აღმოსავლურ ცივილიზაციებს შორის!
ეთნიკური რუსი ერთი ჩვეულებრივი ადამიანია თავის დადებითით და უარყოფითით. არაფრით უარესი და არაფრით უკეთესი სხვა ეთნოსის წარმომადგენელზე!
მაგრამ რუსები, როგორც რუსულ იმპერიულ-ტირანიული სივრცის ბინადარნი და ამ სისტემის იდეოლოგიით ტვინდაკომპასებულ ხალხთა მასები, ამოვარდნილნი არიან რეალური ისტორიული სივრცე დროისაგან…როგორც ჩაადაევი და როზანოვი წერდნენ – აქ სრული კოლაფსი და გამყოფი უფსკრულია აღმოსავლურ და დასავლურ ცივილიზაციებს შორის!”
― Merab Mamardashvili

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
― Ronald Reagan

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”
― Ronald Reagan

“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.”
― Ronald Reagan

“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.”
― Ronald Regan

“America is too great for small dreams.”
― Ronald Reagan

“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”
― Ronald Reagan

“To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Don't be afraid to see what you see.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Life is one grand sweet song so start the music”
― Ronald Reagan

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way”
― Ronald Reagan

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
― Frank Sinatra

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
― Frank Sinatra