Top 23 Quotes by Anthony Lewis

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.

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.

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.

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

I am an optimist about America.

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

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

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

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 humanity.