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
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. — 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 and barns. — 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 risks suppression… — 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 grips conservative… — 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 voices at… — Anthony Lewis 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 plans. — 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 spurning our… — Anthony Lewis 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 kindness. It… — 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 the fault… — 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 in the… — 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 has next… — Anthony Lewis 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 to democracy… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
