Anthony Lewis

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.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

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.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.