Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American. — Anthony Lewis Adhere Copy Share Image
Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States. — Anthony Lewis Faith Copy Share Image
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. — Anthony Lewis America Copy Share Image
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory. — Anthony Lewis Beauty Copy Share Image
The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything. — Anthony Lewis Amendment Copy Share Image
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me. — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. — Anthony Lewis Countries Copy Share Image
The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where… — Anthony Lewis Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy.… — Anthony Lewis Belief Copy Share Image
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
