Anthony Lewis

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.

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

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

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.