American - Journalist | March 27, 1927 - March 25, 2013
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Anthony Lewis
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I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.
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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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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.
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Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.
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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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Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.
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The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
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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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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.
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