Stephen L. Carter Quotes

This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.
Stephen L. Carter
The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.
Stephen L. Carter
She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.
Stephen L. Carter
In a crisis, time was always the enemy.
Stephen L. Carter
Better to wait actively than passively.
Stephen L. Carter
The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.
Stephen L. Carter
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
Stephen L. Carter
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
Stephen L. Carter
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
Stephen L. Carter
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
Stephen L. Carter
Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.
Stephen L. Carter
To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
Stephen L. Carter
Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.
Stephen L. Carter
He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.
Stephen L. Carter
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Stephen L. Carter
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
Stephen L. Carter
On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.
Stephen L. Carter
So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.
Stephen L. Carter
It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.
Stephen L. Carter
Being on the inside could be an addiction
Stephen L. Carter
He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.
Stephen L. Carter
They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
Stephen L. Carter
In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.
Stephen L. Carter
Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.
Stephen L. Carter