Anthony Lewis Quotes

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• We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world.…
• Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own…
• I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
• Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to…
• Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
• With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
• I am an optimist about America.
• Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
• The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for…
• 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 and…
• Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
• Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is…
• We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
• Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators,…
• Americans, we passionately believe, are a humane people. We showed that in restoring wounded economies abroad after World War II, even those of our enemies,…
• East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that…
• There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
• Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
• 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…
• The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

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