Stephen L. Carter

Quotes

• “On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not wi...”
• “So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold thos...”
• “The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over th...”
• “He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.”
• “Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.”
• “They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.”
• “In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
• “He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.”
• “He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.”
• “The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.”
• “To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.”
• “He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.”
• “Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.”
• “She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.”
• “The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.”
• “It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.”
• “Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.”
• “She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.”
• “Being on the inside could be an addiction”
• “In a crisis, time was always the enemy.”
• “Better to wait actively than passively.”