Top 23 Quotes by Anthony Lewis

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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