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" I am an optimist about America. "
Anthony Lewis
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" 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. "
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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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" With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict. "
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" 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. "
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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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" There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory. "
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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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" Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States. "
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" Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries. "
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" 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. "
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