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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.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: American Fields Houses Landscape Love Olive Stone Visit Who

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I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist.

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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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Topics: Adhere American Cia Directors Insist Law Left Presidents Think I Think

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

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Amendment Everything First First Amendment Important Very

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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.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: American Claims Fight Human Human Rights Hypocrisy Led Makes Moral Our Ourselves People Prisoners Rights See Sense Way World

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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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Topics: Abide Around Compel Effort Governments Many Our Over Own Persuade Put Risk Rules States United United States Worked World Years

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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.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Always Case Court Covering Decided Had Me Meaning Special Supreme Supreme Court

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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.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Able Adequate Against Competent Defense Effectively Even He Investigation Lawyer May Mount Next Nothing Resources Starvation State Wages Works

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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Faith Foundation Reason States Stone United United States

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

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: America Civil Civil War Constitution Exception Free Kept Law Terrible War Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 27th, 1927

Died: March 25th, 2013

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