We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
- Anthony Lewis
Designers, Learned, Ghastly, Sophisticated
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Conservative, Grips, Foreign
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Sense, Makes, Led, Claims
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Next, May, Works, Mount
Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
- Anthony Lewis
Faith, Reason, United States, Stone
Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
- Anthony Lewis
Love, Houses, Olive, Stone
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Over, United, United States, Abide
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Abroad, Wounded, Humane, Restoring
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
- Anthony Lewis
Law, Think, I Think, Adhere
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Other, Failures, Humane, Negotiating
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Back, Leaders, Before, International
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Truths, Countries, Many, Criminal
The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
- Anthony Lewis
Today, Stands, Barrier, Case
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Will, More, More People, Societies
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Matter, Southern, Attacking, Self-Interest
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.
- Anthony Lewis
Work, Law, Injustice, Trusted
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
- Anthony Lewis
Middle-Of-The-Road, Centrist
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
- Anthony Lewis
Beauty, Values, May, Logic
I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.
- Anthony Lewis
Always, Supreme, Covering, Court
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
- Anthony Lewis
Law, Exception, Civil War, Civil
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
- Anthony Lewis
Fact, Poor, Overcrowded, Desperation
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
- Anthony Lewis
Important, Amendment, Very, First Amendment
I am an optimist about America.
- Anthony Lewis
I Am, About, Am, Optimist
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