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Anthony Lewis's Profile

Brief about Anthony Lewis: By info that we know Anthony Lewis was born at 1927-03-27. And also Anthony Lewis is American Journalist.

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Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

Tags: Fact, Life, Poor

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

Tags: Faith, Reason, United

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.

Tags: Freedom, Power, Work

I am an optimist about America.

Tags: America, Optimist

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

Tags: Decided, Meaning, Special

I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

Tags: Centrist

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Tags: American, Law, Left

The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.

Tags: Amendment

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

Tags: Silence, Stands, Today

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Tags: Beauty, Humanity, May

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

Tags: Learned, Mistakes, Plans

With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

Tags: America, Law, War

Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.

Tags: Landscape, Love, Stone

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, Germany and Japan.

Tags: After, Japan, War

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 a matter of intense self-interest.

Tags: Kindness, Life, Matter

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, especially.

Tags: Congress, Policy, Support

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.

Tags: Anyone, Democracy, Government

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 belief.

Tags: Belief, Economy, Share

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 nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.

Tags: Able, Against, May

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 rules, we put that effort at risk.

Tags: Effort, Put, Risk
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