The pack [i.e., the media and the "intelligentsia"] is after him because what he says is unbearable: that the answer to dictatorship is not liberalism, but Christianity. I mean, that is an unbearable proposition from their point of view, and it is where he stands . . . It has been something wonderful to watch and, to more people than you might think, enormously heartening: that that is what this man should have to say instead of a lot of claptrap . . . They started off by never mentioning that he was a Christian. I mean, for a long time, he was made a hero of the cause for freedom, but it was never mentioned that an integral and essential part of it was his Christian belief.
From an interview on William F. Buckley's Firing Line in 1978. The transcript is cited in Vintage Muggeridge, ed. Geoffrey Barlow, 1985.
