"Despite all the gains for democracy in the……" — Anthony Lewis
"Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment."
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20 Quotes by Anthony Lewis
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We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for…
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the…
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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning…
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Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources,…
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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I am an optimist about America.
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Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to…
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The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No…
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The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing…
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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
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Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity,…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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