Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewiswas an American public intellectual and journalist, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a longtime New York Times columnist. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 March 1927
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
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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.
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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.
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
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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 past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
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We defended him as hard as we could; but he made a lot of tough shots in the paint against us.
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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.
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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
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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.
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We grew up even a lot from last week. Even with all the dropped balls and fumbled, we never stopped believing in ourselves.
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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.