“ 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… Stephen L. Carter
“ This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians. 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
“ People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for. Stephen L. Carter
“ Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it. Stephen L. Carter
“ He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true. 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
